The Computer Criminal

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 States. He was quiet, overweight, wore glasses and resembled the stereotypical look of your everyday computer nerd. His problem was that his curiosities lead him into an area of crime, which at the time, was yet to be taken seriously. His crime was that of "hacking." Mitnick was responsible for numerous illegal computer break-ins to many information databases including phone companies, large corporations, and even the United States government. Throughout his career he was a dangerous threat to not only the privacy of the lives of thousands of innocent people, but also he posed a threat to the overall infrastructure of the United States. Following his initial violation of probation, Mitnick began on a criminal journey as he ran from the authorities for years without being able to be caught. The longer he was a fugitive, the more he became a criminal.
As a teenager, Mitnick was fascinated with the telephone system. It was this curiosity with technology that drove him to his criminal life. …