The Fugitive Game: Online With Kevin Mitnick by Littman Jonathan

Author:Littman, Jonathan [Littman, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Biography, History
ISBN: 9780316528696
Amazon: 0316528692
Goodreads: 18162
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 1996-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

so . . ."

"What was it like for you to have a beautiful woman attracted to

you?"

"It made me feel good," Mitnick brightens, then sighs at the mem-

ory. "She was always on me to lose weight and stuff, to get into

exercise. I was too busy with my hacking. I mean this overconsum-

ing hobby kinda screwed up my life."

"Some people have tried to portray you as not having the normal

sides of your life that most people have —"

"I'm like everybody else," Mitnick cuts in angrily.

"As a cyberman, how do you find women?"

"Well, I send them messages on their computer screens," Mitnick

jokes.

"Do you tell them, 'I'm the most famous hacker in the world'?"

The idea annoys Mitnick. "No. I don't tell them anything about

that. Hold on a second. I'm looking for a battery pack. Hold on a

second. Doo, doo, doo. Where did it go?"

I can hear Mitnick tromping around in what must be his apart-

ment. He sounds like a big, oafish guy. That's what I'm imagining

anyway.

"Hope I didn't lose one of my eighty-dollar battery packs," he

grumbles.

Everything has a price to Mitnick. Probably because money

means freedom. Probably because he's never made much of it.

"OK. Sorry about that," Mitnick apologizes for the interruption.

The battery's still lost.

"So you see someone in a supermarket and you —"

Mitnick laughs. "I just say, 'Hey, I'm the greatest lay and the

greatest hacker in the world.' "

"What more could you ask for?" I joke.

"Yeah. Well, I'm not a Don Juan. I just meet 'em and if I'm inter-

ested get their phone number. Like there's one gal I met but she was

only nineteen."

"And how'd you meet her?"

"Actually, waiting for a doctor. I said, 'Hi,' and, of course, they

ask 'What do you do for a living', and I tell them I'm a private

investigator. You tell 'em that, and they're 'Oh, I always wanted to

do that. Can you find out anything on me?'

" 'What do you want me to find out? I can find out all I want

about you from you just telling me.' They laugh. You always get 'em

to laugh," Mitnick explains. "It's a numbers game. You know,

you're gonna get one for every ten you ask out, pretty much."

"This is what's interesting. Your public image is a nerd," I counter.

"Of course I wear my pocket protector," Mitnick stresses in a

serious tone.

"And you would never think that you ever talked to ten women

your whole life, right?"

"Well, they don't know me," Mitnick angrily snaps. "Markoff

doesn't know me. I wouldn't even talk to the guy."

■ ■ ■

"So you talked to this woman in the doctor's office."

"She was pretty young was the problem, really. You can tell if

someone's interested 'cuz, you know, body language. It's all in the

game. You gotta strike something with the person. Then you start

out as friends and go on dates and take it from there. I don't have a

script. It's not like I'm doing a social engineering attack."

The computer arena is another matter.

"I sometimes do social engineering if it's a hack attack," Mitnick

begins, switching to his favorite pursuit. "I'll just be driving in the

car and think, hey, I wonder if they'll fall for it? I'll just pick up the

phone and just do it.

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