From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 18:40:01 MST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: Kevin Mitnick and the Ebay cahoots
> Gina Miller wrote:
> >
> > Hacker's auctions stir up controversy. Kevin Mitnick, the infamous
hacker,
> > has found a new and controversial way to make money: auctioning his
personal
> > items online. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3941970.html
> > Within forty-five minutes of a CNET (above) news article posted late
> > Thursday night reporting that the three biggest on-line auction sites:
eBay,
> > Yahoo Auctions, and Amazon.com Auctions had canceled the auction
featuring
> > Kevin Mitnick's Federal inmate debit card, eBay canceled the auction of
> > former computer hacker Kevin Mitnick's ham radio.
> > http://www.kevinmitnick.com/home.html
> >
> >
>
> This stuff really ticks me off. The government went way overboard. All
> those years away from anything remotely like a computer are very much
> cruel and unusual punishment. They also don't want him to speak or now
> even sale off goods. This is way out of line.
>
> - samantha
>
I read an interview with him where he said he is getting into writing. He
said that it was pretty tricky without being allowed to use a computer,
however. Also, he related stories about being put in solitary because the
screws thought he could do something dastardly with his transistor radio, or
fire off nuclear missiles by whistling into the telephone. Poor bugger!
Emlyn
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