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   pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 15:11:05 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
   Kevin Mitnick died of pancreatic cancer at 59. A lot of people are posting some link around and I don't know what that link is because of Cloudfed.
   
   Speaking of feds, one of the reasons Kevin is famous is that the feds chased him down for getting into a DEC system and downloading a copy of DEC's RSTS/E OS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E ). DEC alleged he did billions of dollars in damage (you wouldn't download a car), the press claimed he was hacking satellites to launch nukes. He did a year, and it was insane: he wasn't allowed to make phone calls because they were worried he was gonna hack a telelphone to launch nukes. (The press was really insistent that he could launch a nuke and was an evil wizard of some sort.) After that, he got popped during his supervised release, and went on the run instead of going back to do more time. Wasn't allowed to use a computer or any digital communications networks. This is a sentence that would result in death by starvation nowadays but was sort or manageable then, except that he couldn't get a job doing anything else, so he wrote a book about social engineering using a typewriter and then sent the manuscript to his friend to typeset it.
   
   There was a documentary about this called "Freedom Downtime". It is worth watching. (You might have seen it when I was rambling some time a year or two ago about getting hammered and watching it and I typed "frek evin" in a bunch of FSE announcements.) It is free, you can watch it for free:
   
   https://archive.org/details/FreedomDowntime-TheStoryOfKevinMitnick
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN4fCK23Srk
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     นาตาลี :bellsystem: (natalie@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 15:11:52 JST นาตาลี :bellsystem:

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     @p@freespeechextremist.com freedom downtime is very good and changed my perception of kevin, as it had been tainted by everyone ironically blaming him for every hack, like a sam hyde type character

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 15:16:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @p Dammit, you made me check and boingboing.net of all the things is Cloudf'ed.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 16:24:23 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     I love how they could prohibit this guy from using any tech, but many courts have ruled that it's unconstitutional to prohibit convicted pedophiles from using the internet or going to parks where children are present as a condition of release.
     
     Hackerman is worse than pedoguy. 😒
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 17:01:40 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Reasonable Man
     The case specific rhetoric that is often used just proves my point.
     
     Take blanket restrictions on going to public parks, which anyone can live without doing. I can build a viable analogy.
     
     > Mitnik do bad thing on computers. Therefore no computers.
     
     > Sex Offenders do bad thing on kids. Therefore some kids ok, as long as different.
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     Reasonable Man (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 17:01:41 JST Reasonable Man

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     • ?? Humpleupagus ??

     @p @Humpleupagus The difference is when it happened. It's simply not possible to exist without the Internet anymore.

     Even when I had an Internet ban in 2013, it had exceptions you could fly a plane through. Anything for education or a job or getting a job, and I work in IT. Really, it was just them not wanting me to use Twitter or my blog to embarrass a dumbass "computer detective" who didn't know shit.

     Also, that ruling was in regards to a statute that blanket banned people from using any site with a social media component. It wasn't a case-specific pretrial or probation restriction.

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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 17:01:42 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @Humpleupagus :captcrunch: That is a really good point.
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:54:20 JST ロミンちゃん

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     • Ash Chapel
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     @AshChapelsGhost @p @eee
     >they're not THAT stupid
     Laughing uncontrollably.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:54:21 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @eee They can do whatever they want. His team argued that this was stupid in court and the prosecutor said he should work at McDonald's and the Greek chorus of journos said "YEAH, FLIP BURGERS, NERD!" and the judge thought he was gonna launch a nuke that was basically it.
     
     I figure if he could have launched a nuke, he would have at that point. I would have.
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     Ash Chapel (ashchapelsghost@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:54:21 JST Ash Chapel

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     @p @eee These people are so tarded. I'm fairly certain the controls for atomic weaponry are air-gapped. Fedgov is stupid, but they're not THAT stupid. The codes were 000000, but I have no doubt the launch controls are actually incompatible with TCP/IP and most likely only connected to each other via a sneakernet over the phone (a 'speakernet'?)
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     eee (eee@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:54:22 JST eee

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     @p >the state can forbid you from using a certain type of tool
     :Topkek:
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     Ash Chapel (ashchapelsghost@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:59:21 JST Ash Chapel

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     @romin @p @eee Yeah, I know. You can't make anything foolproof because fools are so damned ingenious.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:51:01 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @Hoss @Owl The best part is that to get an account, he just called, said he worked there, and asked for an account. No cracking involved at all: he just asked.
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     :njp: - kill ✕ owl - (owl@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:51:02 JST :njp: - kill ✕ owl -

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     • Hoss Delgado

     @Hoss @p I remember this guy. Some YouTuber did some overdramatic documentary about the guy making it seem like he was truly the ultimate evil guy.

     He didn’t even do anything. It’s not the documentary P is recommending, just some YouTuber’s work that’s out for clicks.

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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:51:02 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • :njp: - kill ✕ owl -
     Kevin Mitnick did nothing wrong. Old school techies like him were extremely based and the polar opposite in every single way of the establishmentphilic bugs that occupy big tech's gleaming offices in modern day Silicon Valley.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:51:03 JST Hoss Delgado

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     >The press was really insistent that he could launch a nuke and was an evil wizard of some sort.
     I wish I could make the establishment seethe so hard that the press paints me as the world's most ultimate badass every time I am the subject of their writings.
     
     RIP king. I've been meaning to read Ghost In the Wires for a while now, maybe it's time.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:52:50 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Ash Chapel
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     @AshChapelsGhost @eee I think it's one of those "Two guys have to turn their keys" systems.
     
     > The codes were 000000,
     
     The PAL codes are the least important part of the process. They're new, it was kinda stupid.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:53:49 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Countermeasures
     @Countermeasures @m0n5t3r No one can accuse this man of leading a boring life.
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     Countermeasures (countermeasures@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:53:53 JST Countermeasures

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     • m0n5t3r
     @m0n5t3r @p
     
     Bad news gentlemen: Weev got stuck in fucking *Ukraine*. He didn't get out fast enough. His wife and children made it out to Western Europe but last I heard he was still stuck there. Alive, at least as of a few months ago. Apparently his house even got blown up by Russian artillery, meaning that he's now had his domicile destroyed by both the US *and* Russia.
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     m0n5t3r (m0n5t3r@ps.m0n5t3r.info)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 07:53:54 JST m0n5t3r

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     > This is a sentence that would result in death by starvation nowadays but was sort or manageable then
     
     I think weev had a similar set of conditions (no confuser, but was allowed a smartphone)... last I've heard of him he had moved to a country where his opinions on Jews are close to the mainstream (Lebanon, IIRC); funny enough, he did the time for discovering some apple website thingy had incremental IDs allowing you to harvest emails / phone numbers, not sure what else, reporting it to apple, being ignored, then publicizing it because no other way to fix the thing...