[82299] in Cypherpunks
Feds Recant on Mitnick
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon Jun 23 08:14:35 1997
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 07:19:54 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
23 June 1997:
New twist/ Feds Recant on Mitnick's Fugitive Status
Back in 1994, a supposedly fleeing Kevin Mitnick told anyone
who would listen he really wasn't a fugitive from justice.
He claimed to be just a paranoid hacker who didn't want to
stick around once his probation was up. As it turns out, he
may have been telling me the truth. In a federal court in Los
Angeles, the government admitted it had made a mistake in saying
that Mitnick was on the lam.
The admission may put an entirely different twist on the case.
If Mitnick wasn't really a fugitive, a couple of probation
violations mistakenly escalated into one the biggest manhunts
in cyberspace. Petty offenses by Mitnick -- probably
punishable by an extension of his probation -- spun into a
nationwide cat-and-mouse game that drew a frenzy of media
hype. Along the way, Mitnick, who may have been no more
than a scofflaw, instead became the notorious criminal
mastermind the authorities apparently wanted him to be.
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Full report:
http://jya.com/kmtwist.txt
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S.F. Judge Likely to Uphold Encryption Ruling
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http://jya.com/cn062397.txt
