![]() Law enforcement agencies have taken cybercrime seriously for a long time now, as demonstrated by Mitnick's arrest and conviction, but lately arrests of alleged members of groups like Anonymous are making the news more often. It seems like not a week goes by without another story in the news about a company or government database being hacked. ![]() However, it's just in this decade that we, as a society, are beginning to understand and react to the effects of hacking as a phenomenon. Hacking started long before the Web, of course, and even today hacking is nothing like what one sees on the movies. For those of us who grew up with the Web as a fact of life and absorbed "hacker culture" through Hollywood, Mitnick's experiences seem somewhat alien. ![]() Last week Kevin Mitnick was on The Colbert Report to promote his new book, Ghost in the Wires and talk about hacking. ![]()
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