Essays Tagged: "Kevin Mitnick"

Computer crime

notonly affects the victim, but others as well. One case involving a notorious hacker named Kevin Mitnick did just that. Mitnickis a very intelligent man. He is 31 and pending trial for comput ...

(4 pages) 175 1 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Hackers hacking the net

way into their system and steal credit card information from consumers (6).(4)In February of 1995, Kevin Mitnick, a world renounded Super Cracker, was finally apprehended after evading the FBI for ne ...

(5 pages) 308 0 3.9 Aug/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Internet Censorship

ain such databases for illegal purposes. To cite an instance, the most infamous computer terrorist, Kevin Mitnick, 'waived extradition and is now in jail in California, charged with computer fraud and ...

(4 pages) 121 0 3.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Hackers: Technological Wizards

has; whereas, the average computer user who just wants to learn only the minimal amount necessary.(Kevin Mitnick 145).Phone phreaks use more of the telephone system than they do computers. Christian ...

(9 pages) 178 1 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Computer Crime, on the increase in many areas: hackers, hardware theft, software piracy and the information highway.

1 cases, that's almost an 1800% increase in just 5 years. An example is 31 year old computer expert Kevin Mitnick that was arrested by the FBI for stealing more then $1 million worth in data and about ...

(5 pages) 307 2 4.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

"Hackers" analyzes the many misconceptions of the Hacker culture, which often contributes many unrecognized positive influences on the computing world today.

. The cracker is the bad guy and the hacker is almost always the good guy. There are people such as Kevin Mitnick and Robert Morris who use their knowledge in improper ways. These are the people who g ... are good computer hackers when they have done nothing. If society wants to persecute people such as Kevin Mitnick and Robert Morris, that is fine. They should leave the rest of the innocent hackers al ...

(10 pages) 148 1 4.6 Oct/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Hackers good or evil? Argues civil liberities of true hackers

a free derivative of Unix today called Linux (Slatalla).The most famous hacker of all time is named Kevin Mitnick. In 1994 the spotlight was put on Mitnick when an article about him ran on the cover o ... m ran on the cover of the New York Times. The article, written by John Markov, created "The myth of Kevin Mitnick", he says. Mitnick has been accused of everything from hacking into the defense comput ...

(6 pages) 105 0 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

How important is privacy in the on-line world and how can companies face the challenge of privacy violation?

ot forget that data is valuable in the Information Era and it has a tempting price. Internet hacker Kevin Mitnick was convicted in 1996 of stealing thousands of credit card numbers and other business ...

(9 pages) 437 1 3.7 Jun/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

This essay is history of hacking.

ars. Stoll later wrote the bestseller "The Cuckoo's Egg" about his pursuit of the hackers.1989 > Kevin Mitnick is convicted of stealing software from DEC and long-distance codes from MCI, becoming ... isappears and a short time later is declared a fugitive. He resurfaces in 1994, as a confederate of Kevin Poulsen in his radio-station contest-rigging scheme. (See 1993.)1991 > The General Accounti ...

(9 pages) 182 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

THE COMPUTER CRIMINAL - Computer crimes and a brief story of Kevin David Mitnick. Include details of his parole and intermediate punishment sentence. Fully cited. Includes references.

As a poor and neglected child from the suburbs of California, Kevin Mitnick would later become the most famous computer criminal in the history of the United Stat ... l videotape on computer crimes and computer security. Following his release in 1983 it seemed as if Kevin was well on the road to rehabilitation.Shortly after his release from Karl Holton in October o ... often arriving early to the job and staying late to work on a number of special projects. However, Kevin's boss became suspicious to what exactly it was the he was doing to be so overly committed to ...

(17 pages) 173 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

And indepth look at the trial of Kevin Mitnick. Fully cited. References included.

vided to us such as the right to bail and a speedy trial. This was the case in the United States v. Kevin David Mitnick. Following a violation of probation conditions, Kevin Mitnick was arrested and i ... ystem and the government bent out of line in order to unconstitutionally bleed a guilty plea out of Kevin Mitnick. Their desire to get Mitnick back for humiliating them in their never-ending pursuit t ...

(13 pages) 126 2 2.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Impact of Technology

ot forget that data is valuable in the Information Era and it has a tempting price. Internet hacker Kevin Mitnick was convicted in 1996 of stealing thousands of credit card numbers and other business ...

(6 pages) 281 0 3.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Computer Ethics And The Constitution

ety." The Sixth Amendment assures the "right to a speedy and public trial." Alleged computer hacker Kevin Mitnick faces a federal indictment for allegedly copying proprietary computer software. After ...

(3 pages) 23 0 2.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Untitled

cious, but instead for the better. The mid to late 1980s saw the rise of computer "hackers" such as Kevin Mitnick. kevin Mitnick was caught at least a half dozen times, with the charges ranging from c ... ts. These teens would be determined to carry on the symbolic spirit, or what they thought to be, of Kevin Mitnick. However, the computer crimes that thses users perpatrate cost small businesses and co ...

(13 pages) 43 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Untitled

cious, but instead for the better. The mid to late 1980s saw the rise of computer "hackers" such as Kevin Mitnick. kevin Mitnick was caught at least a half dozen times, with the charges ranging from c ... ts. These teens would be determined to carry on the symbolic spirit, or what they thought to be, of Kevin Mitnick. However, the computer crimes that thses users perpatrate cost small businesses and co ...

(12 pages) 27 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Should You Hire a Hacker to Protect Your Computer Systems?

ies such as starting a nuclear war by using a telephone, as was the case of a computer hacker named Kevin Mitnick. Before we answer this question however we must define what a hacker really is and lea ... ions." [3] However, others who have been involved first hand in hunting down famous hackers such as Kevin Mitnick, who served many years in prison for illegally breaking into numerous computer systems ...

(5 pages) 34 0 2.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science