Ghost of (NY) Times Past

An eerie chill went down my spine this morning as I began cruisin' the blogosphere! First stop was Michelle Malkin's blog... lo and behold I saw a ghost! I stayed up late last night watching TRACKDOWN, followed up with SHATTERED GLASS. And now THIS:

"Hi-tech high jinks Kevin Mitnick, the world's most notorious hacker who eventually turned over a new leaf, was the guest speaker at an ITWeb conference on security last week. Mitnick now advises businesses on how to keep people like him outside their networks.

It seems he is losing his edge. Mitnick told how he recently received a call from a man named Jerry, who asked if he was speaking to the Kevin Mitnick.

When Mitnick answered in the affirmative, Jerry asked if he remembered using a wireless laptop in a Starbucks coffee shop in Los Angeles the previous month. Turns out that Jerry was also there, sniffing the wireless network, and managed to infiltrate Mitnick's e-mail. My passwords got captured, a sheepish Mitnick confessed. I walked in, and 30 seconds later someone had my credentials. Well, that's reassuring for the rest of us." - TMCnet 16.3.06

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Now, what damage could they have done had Jayson Blair and Kevin Mitnick TEAMED UP? THAT would be verrrry interesting!

Just before post-time, I noticed in MM's comments that I'm not the only one interested in motion pictures: Ed Driscoll blogs "...These days, it's the Blogosphere which endlessly satirizes the Gray Lady herself." Amen!

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