Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick

Author:Kevin Mitnick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2011-08-14T21:00:00+00:00

Wait a minute. If they had come to arrest me, they would have knocked on my door while I was still in the apartment.

Why would McGuire call the Village Market? Suddenly the answer came clear: to get a search warrant, they would need a description of my apartment complex and the exact location of my unit. Maybe McGuire wasn’t ready to arrest me yet—he was just getting the location details that he needed to put into the search warrant before presenting it to a judge.

Michael and Mark both arrived at work. I updated them: “Ken McGuire’s been to my apartment this morning, while I was still asleep.” Their expressions were priceless: “How the hell does he always find out these things?!” All along, they had been fascinated by my stories about how I was penetrating the entire FBI operation against me. They had been eating it up, and this was the capper.

I gathered up all my personal belongings and headed down the stairs to my car, freaked out and uncomfortable, afraid at any moment I’d hear someone shout: “Mitnick, FREEZE!” In the parking area, I peered intently into every car to see if there were any guys in suits keeping watch for me.

As I cautiously pulled out of the garage, my eyes were all but glued to the rearview mirror. I was concentrating more on what might be behind me than what was in front.

I jumped onto the 101 Freeway and gunned it to Aguora Hills, one city over, far enough away that I would be comfortable using my cell phone.

Rolling off the freeway, I pulled into a McDonald’s parking lot.

My first call was, naturally, to Lewis. “The Feds are coming,” I told him.

Most everything washed off Lewis. The shell of arrogance was usually impenetrable.

Not this time. I could hear the news had made him uncomfortable, nervous. If the Feds were targeting me, they had to know he’d been involved in my hacking. It was almost a dead certainty that they wouldn’t want just Mitnick.

I went back to my apartment and went through it thoroughly, inch by inch, rounding up everything I had accumulated since the last cleanup that might help make a case against me. Papers, disks, scraps of anything with writing on it. And the same with my car.

That evening I knocked on Mark Kasden’s door and asked if I could store the stuff in his closet along with the earlier stash I had left with him.

I returned to my apartment and moved my computer back once more to my father’s friend’s place, where I had hidden it once before.

When I was finished, I was satisfied I was thoroughly clean.

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