Re: Yet another 2oFB apology. :/
By: Dumas Walker to paulie420 on Mon Nov 03 2025 08:23 am

isnt kevin mitnick famous?

Apparently so, but not to me. ;)


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isnt kevin mitnick famous?

Apparently so, but not to me. ;)

He was quite popular with people in the phreaking scene.

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Re: Re: Yet another 2oFB apology.
By: neoshock to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 07 2025 23:03:54

isnt kevin mitnick famous?

Apparently so, but not to me. ;)

He was quite popular with people in the phreaking scene.

So I have been told, and that would explain why I had never heard of him until someone used that alias to muck about on paulie's BBS. ;)
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On 08 Dec 2025 at 08:51a, Dumas Walker pondered and said...

Re: Re: Yet another 2oFB apology.
By: neoshock to Dumas Walker on Sun Dec 07 2025 23:03:54

He was quite popular with people in the phreaking scene.

So I have been told, and that would explain why I had never heard of him until someone used that alias to muck about on paulie's BBS. ;)

I met him once; I bet I still have his "lock pick set" business
card somewhere.

He was very good at social engineering, but he wasn't a particularly
technical person.

He passed away a few years ago; cancer. Sadly, his wife was
pregnant with his unborn child at the time.

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So I have been told, and that would explain why I had never heard of him until someone used that alias to muck about on paulie's BBS. ;)

I met him once; I bet I still have his "lock pick set" business
card somewhere.

Nice!

He passed away a few years ago; cancer. Sadly, his wife was
pregnant with his unborn child at the time.

That is sad. :(


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He was very good at social engineering, but he wasn't a particularly technical person.

When Shimomura or whoever it was released the realtime captures of Kevin's sessions in his systems, there were SOO MANY typos and bad commands and stumbling around like an idiot. That's when I knew for sure :).

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On 11 Dec 2025 at 01:35a, phigan pondered and said...

He was very good at social engineering, but he wasn't a particularly technical person.

When Shimomura or whoever it was released the realtime captures of
Kevin's sessions in his systems, there were SOO MANY typos and bad commands and stumbling around like an idiot. That's when I knew for sure :).

Yup. That was Tsutomu Shimomura.

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