ABSTRACT
Kevin David Mitnick was born on August 6, 1963, which at the writing of this book makes him 53 years of age. In 1976, at the ripe age of 13, Kevin Mitnick used a combination of social engineering and dumpster diving to circumvent the punch card system being used by the Los Angeles bus system. The year 1979, when Kevin was 16, was a banner year for him since this is the year that he first obtained illegal access to a computer network. As stated by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Kevin obtained unlawful admittance to numerous computer networks during his time as a fugitive. He made use of cell phones he cloned in order to hide his location from authorities. Mitnick intercepted and stole computer system passwords, made modifications to computer networks, read private emails, and also copied proprietary software from some of the country's leading cell phone and computer corporations.
