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Kevin Mitnick died of pancreatic cancer at 59. A lot of people are posting some link around and I don't know what that link is because of Cloudfed.

Speaking of feds, one of the reasons Kevin is famous is that the feds chased him down for getting into a DEC system and downloading a copy of DEC's RSTS/E OS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E ). DEC alleged he did billions of dollars in damage (you wouldn't download a car), the press claimed he was hacking satellites to launch nukes. He did a year, and it was insane: he wasn't allowed to make phone calls because they were worried he was gonna hack a telelphone to launch nukes. (The press was really insistent that he could launch a nuke and was an evil wizard of some sort.) After that, he got popped during his supervised release, and went on the run instead of going back to do more time. Wasn't allowed to use a computer or any digital communications networks. This is a sentence that would result in death by starvation nowadays but was sort or manageable then, except that he couldn't get a job doing anything else, so he wrote a book about social engineering using a typewriter and then sent the manuscript to his friend to typeset it.

There was a documentary about this called "Freedom Downtime". It is worth watching. (You might have seen it when I was rambling some time a year or two ago about getting hammered and watching it and I typed "frek evin" in a bunch of FSE announcements.) It is free, you can watch it for free:

https://archive.org/details/FreedomDowntime-TheStoryOfKevinMitnick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN4fCK23Srk

This kind of brilliantly stupid shit is what I miss from the early days of the internet

@r000t @tyil i never bought into the typing speed meme - 80% of development is usually thinking and reading for me.

I'm getting a tad worried about the sheer number of packages suddenly requiring rust.

It's getting harder and harder to avoid having rust forced upon you, even when using gentoo.

@Witteg
wenn hier was vergessen wird dann der farbfilm beim hiddensee urlaub!
@m0urs

@korrektheiten um die vermehrten fahrten von RTW zu bemerken braucht man nicht an einer großen innenstadtkreuzung zu sein. das geht auch in der pampa.

früher ™️ war hier vielleicht 1-2x woche normal, heute ists manchmal mehr als 3 mal.

aber mir solls egal sein. das fazit des arztes betreffend die solidarische mehrheit teile ich.

Alexander Wallasch:» Wutrede eines ungeimpften Zahnarztes: „Wir wurden denunziert, beschimpft, ausgegrenzt und zur Gefahr erklärt": Heute veröffentlichte ein Zahnarzt mit eigener Praxis einen Kommentar unter dem Artikel „Die Odyssee der Ungeimpften und Geimpften“. dlvr.it/SsQMwW «

@freemo
that's quite amazing :)

that wikipedia article looks very interesting, will be a good read this evening! :)

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