Ghost in the Wires_ My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker - Kevin Mitnick [200]
Justin Petersen aka Eric Heinz while working as an FBI informant trying to gather evidence against me, 1992 (Count Zero aka John Lester)
The Soundex, or driver’s license image, that I obtained of Eric Heinz while he was tailing me
The Kinko’s location in Studio City, California, that the DMV investigators chased me from on Christmas Eve, 1992
The cash register building housing the Denver law firm where I worked; in the foreground is the apartment building where I lived (Nick Arnott)
In Denver while on the run, April 1993, age twenty-nine
The apartment in Seattle where I was raided by the Secret Service and Seattle police, 1994 (Shellee Hale)
Mug shot on the day of capture, February 15, 1995, Raleigh, North Carolina
My prison ID card from Lompoc FCI, subject of international press after eBay yanked the item for violating “community standards,” vastly raising interest—and raising the value to $4,000
Demonstration by my supporters outside the Miramax offices in 1998 protesting the depiction of me in their feature film Takedown (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine)
Alex Kasperavicius posting a “Free Kevin” sticker at the Mobil gas station across the street from the Metropolitan Detention Center on my thirty-fifth birthday, August 6, 1998 (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine)
Holding up a bumper sticker from inside the Metropolitan Detention Center’s inmate law library, in Los Angeles, to a crowd of “Free Kevin” supporters outside, on my thirty-fifth birthday (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine)
In Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution visiting room, 1999, age thirty-six
The day I was released from Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution, January 21, 2000, age thirty-six (Emmanuel Goldstein, 2600 magazine)
Gift wrapping on the PowerBook G4 Steve Wozniak gave me in front of television cameras to celebrate the end of my supervised release, January 2003 (Alan Luckow)
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, me, and Emmanuel Goldstein (founder of 2600 magazine) on the television show The Screen Savers, celebrating the end of my supervised release, making me a completely free man: January 20, 2003, age thirty-nine (Courtesy of G4 TV)
Boys will be boys: me before cyberspace (Author’s personal collection)
CONTENTS
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
Foreword by Steve Wozniak
Prologue
PART ONE: The Making of a Hacker
1 Rough Start
2 Just Visiting
3 Original Sin
4 Escape Artist
5 All Your Phone Lines Belong to Me
6 Will Hack for Love
7 Hitched in Haste
8 Lex Luthor
9 The Kevin Mitnick Discount Plan
10 Mystery Hacker
PART TWO: Eric
11 Foul Play
12 You Can Never Hide
13 The Wiretapper
14 You Tap Me, I Tap You
15 “How the Fuck Did You Get That?”
16 Crashing Eric’s Private Party
17 Pulling Back the Curtain
18 Traffic Analysis
19 Revelations
20 Reverse Sting
21 Cat and Mouse
22 Detective Work
23 Raided
24 Vanishing Act
PART THREE: On the Run
25 Harry Houdini
26 Private Investigator
27 Here Comes the Sun
28 Trophy Hunter
29 Departure
30 Blindsided
31 Eyes in the Sky
32 Sleepless in Seattle
PART FOUR: An End and a Beginning
33 Hacking the Samurai
34 Hiding in the Bible Belt
35 Game Over
36 An FBI Valentine
37 Winning the Scapegoat Sweepstakes
38 Aftermath: A Reversal of Fortune
Acknowledgments
Photo Inserts
Author Bio
Also by Kevin Mitnick
Copyright
AUTHOR BIO
Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most famous (former) hacker, is now a security consultant. He has been the subject of countless news and magazine articles and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs offering expert commentary on information security. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and written for Harvard Business Review. Mitnick is the author, with William L. Simon, of the bestselling books The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
ALSO BY KEVIN MITNICK