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Story: Hacker Mitnick may sue AT&T over data breach

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Quite ironic

Kevin Mitnick the self proclaimed King of social engineering writes a book to cash in on his illegal exploits and someone uses the methods described therein against him.
What did he expect?
It's like giving a child a shotgun, showing them how to aim it and how to pull the trigger and then calling foul when they blow someones head off.
OF COURSE these sociopathic little hacker types are going to use the techniques against him (and others).
Some would say that writing a book describing in detail how he performed these illegal activities is itsself at best irresponsible and at worst incitement to commit crime.
As far as I am concerned when it comes to data security and privacy Mitnick waived the right to any at all when he illegaly abused several systems and compromised the data security and privacy of hundreds of law abiding decent people.

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