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Overview

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies—and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But for Kevin, hacking wasn't just about technological feats-it was an old fashioned confidence game that required guile and deception to trick the unwitting out of valuable information.

Driven by a powerful urge to accomplish the impossible, Mitnick bypassed security systems and blazed into major organizations including Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and Pacific Bell. But as the FBI's net began to tighten, Kevin went on the run, engaging in an increasingly sophisticated cat and mouse game that led through false identities, a host of cities, plenty of close shaves, and an ultimate showdown with the Feds, who would stop at nothing to bring him down.

Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escape, and a portrait of a visionary whose creativity, skills, and persistence forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him, inspiring ripples that brought permanent changes in the way people and companies protect their most sensitive information.

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If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-artist was penetrating the digital secrets of Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Nokia, Motorola, Pacific Bell, and other mammoth enterprises. His Ghost in the Wires memoir paints an action portrait of a plucky loner motivated by a passion for trickery, not material game. (P.S. Mitnick's capers have already been the subject of two books and a movie. This first-person account is the most comprehensive to date.)

Publishers Weekly
It's the piquant human element that really animates this rollicking memoir of high-tech skullduggery. Mitnick (The Art of Deception) recounts his epic illegal computer hacks of Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, and any number of cellphone makers; his exploits triggered a manhunt that made headlines. He insists he did it not for money but for the transgressive thrill of looking at big, secret computer programs—otherwise he apparently lived a threadbare existence on the lam—and the claim rings true; there's something obsessive and pure about his need to hack and brag about it to others, habits which eventually brought about his downfall. Mitnick's hacking narratives are lucid to neophytes and catnip to people who love code, but the book's heart is his "social engineering"—his preternatural ability to schmooze and manipulate. By learning their procedures and mimicking their lingo, he gets cops, technicians, DMV functionaries, and other mandarins—his control over telephone companies is almost godlike—to divulge their secrets and do his bidding. The considerable charm of this nonstop caper saga lies in seeing the giant, faceless bureaucracies that rule and regulate us unmasked as assemblages of hapless people dancing to a plucky con man's tune. Photos. (Aug. 15)
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Once the most wanted computer hacker in the world, Mitnick is now a good guy with two best sellers on Internet security. Here he finally offers a memoir of his hacking period and the three years he spent on the run from the FBI. (The agency had barred him from discussing his experiences for seven years.) Not just for tech nerds, this is bound to be entertaining in the style of Frank Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can. And informative, too.
Kirkus Reviews

A legendary hacker recalls his escapades and life on the run from the FBI.

Mitnick (The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers, 2005, etc.), who now works as a computer-security consultant, spent nearly five years in a federal prison for computer crimes. With the lifting of a court ban that prohibited him from writing about his exploits, he offers a whirlwind account of his thrill-seeking adventures stealing source code and other sensitive data from phone and computer companies while leading the FBI and other federal authorities on a cross-country chase that ended with his arrest in 1995. Now in his late 40s, Mitnick grew up in California and developed an early fascination for pranks, deception and technology. At age 17, he was arrested for stealing phone-company manuals. At 23, he writes, his hacking gave him control over phone systems in much of the United States.One judge, in denying bail, said Mitnick posed a threat to the community when "armed with a keyboard." In fact, his strongest suit was his ability to manipulate people; he learned the inside lingo of bureaucrats, won their trust and gained access to information. "People are just too trusting," writes the reformed con man. The author delights in recounting his celebrated hacks of Sun Microsystems and other corporations; his outwitting of FBI pursuers; his elaborate methods of creating new identities; and his obsessive search for still edgier challenges. "Hacking was my entertainment," he writes.He never gained financially from his "trophies" (source codes, passwords, credit-card and social-security numbers, etc.), but gathered them "purely for the thrill." His breezy, in-your-face, anti-establishment narrative will please many readers, but some may find the author's self-important attitude grating.

A lucid, brightly written tale for both techies and lay readers.

J. D. Biersdorfer
For those interested in computer history, Ghost in the Wires is a nostalgia trip to the quaint old days before hacking (and hackers) turned so malicious and financially motivated.
—The New York Times
Jeffrey Rosen
…the most useful part of Mitnick's book is his revelations about how easy it is to con security officials at high tech companies and government agencies into turning over highly sensitive information…Mitnick shows that the greatest vulnerability in any security system is human credulousness.
—The Washington Post

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316037709
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • Publication date: 8/15/2011
  • Pages: 432
  • Sales rank: 40,478
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous (former) hacker, is now a security consultant. He has been the subject of countless news and magazine articles and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, offering expert commentary on information security, and he has testified before the United States Senate and written for Harvard Business Review. Mitnick is the author, with William L. Simon, of the bestselling books The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Table of Contents

Foreword Steve Wozniak ix

Prologue xi

Part 1 The Making of a Hacker

1 Rough Start 3

2 Just Visiting 7

3 Original Sin 20

4 Escape Artist 34

5 All Your Phone Lines Belong to Me 44

6 Will Hack for Love 53

7 Hitched in Haste 62

8 Lex Luthor 72

9 The Kevin Mitnick Discount Plan 94

10 Mystery Hacker 102

Part 2 Eric

11 Foul Play 111

12 You Can Never Hide 116

13 The Wiretapper 126

14 You Tap Me, I Tap You 131

15 "How the Fuck Did You Get That?" 143

16 Crashing Eric's Private Party 149

17 Pulling Back the Curtain 153

18 Traffic Analysis 163

19 Revelations 169

20 Reverse Sting 174

21 Cat and Mouse 179

22 Detective Work 187

23 Raided 198

24 Vanishing Act 206

Part 3 On the Run

25 Harry Houdini 217

26 Private Investigator 226

27 Here Comes the Sun 237

28 Trophy Hunter 249

29 Departure 264

30 Blindsided 280

31 Eyes in the Sky 289

32 Sleepless in Seattle 306

Part 4 An End and a Beginning

33 Hacking the Samurai 323

34 Hiding in the Bible Belt 331

35 Game Over 347

36 An FBI Valentine 354

37 Winning the Scapegoat Sweepstakes 362

38 Aftermath: A Reversal of Fortune 384

Acknowledgments 395

Index 403

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  • Posted August 14, 2011

    Case study of a kid who pushed the limits

    Better than Grisham because it's true. For some of us Silicon Valley natives, Kevin Mitnick has been as captivating as Howard Hughes was for a previous generation. He was an iconoclastic rebel, whose victims were monolithic corporations like the phone company, attacked via their guileless front office people. Because the law didn't understand his crimes, the damages were inflated and his criminal sentence was wildly out of proportion to the actual harm done. However his arrest did stop what was an escalating trajectory of criminal behavior. So although what he was punished for was out of synch with the actual damages, had he gone unchecked the harm could eventually have matched the government's claims.
    But what I find interesting is the author's voice: the lack of remorse, the gleeful retelling of malicious tricks upon others. Read this side by side with Catch Me If You Can and you get a fantastic case study of antisocial personalities who manipulate others for the game, whose narcissism leads them to believe that others are stupid for having faith in them. Fascinating.

    7 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 3, 2011

    If you read one book this year, make it this one.

    One of the best books out there. If you like interesting and compelling stories you will like this.

    3 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 20, 2011

    Entertaining Read

    The book is an entertaining read following Kevin from his initial childhood influences to his days of "hacking out of curiosity". It then follows him while he tries to hide from the law while using his skills to track those who are tracking him.

    It is filled with wonderful examples of "social engineering", using people's predisposition to trust/help others to get information, which is worth the read in itself. It was a surprising element as I was thinking his hacking skills would have been related more to technical skills. The skill to get strangers to easily give the information he lacked added a great human element to the book.

    The book has chronological flow and really only started to slow down around the 3/4 point where it felt more like a wrap up then a continuation of the "story telling" feel of the fist 3/4.

    Overall a very good read.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 6, 2011

    It should say 'people hacker' not 'computer hacker'

    It is what it is: story after story after story of Kevin hacking or manipulating someone to get at whatever his arbitrary goal happened to be that day. Maybe I just don't have a great deal of respect for hackers in general but after the 200 pages of 'Ghost in the Wires' I was already ready to move on only to find I was just half way through.

    I expected it to be more computer-centric but in fact, a majority of his hacking seems to be schmoozing someone at the telephone company or DMV to give him information.

    The book was well enough written but it left a sour opinion of Kevin for me. Taking advantage of people. Stealing. Lying. There's nothing to be proud of here.

    The only great thing is at the end of it all, Kevin uses his skills to help companies become more secure.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 12, 2012

    Great book

    Gteat, exhilirating, and fun book. Just make sure that you're okay with cursing before you start reading.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 22, 2012

    Actionist

    This is horrible
    You freaking scared my kids and why would they be on my nook? Well because they to read this is horrible dont ever by this aandd waaaaaste ur money that is not cool well yeah your a FOOL ur book sucks and it made me rrate atleast one star stupid nook you give my kids nightmares u gue
    Well anyways now my kids are scared to even read...dummy


    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 19, 2012

    Asome

    Itnwiuld suck if u were one of the people that got tricked

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2012

    Fun

    Lots of ego, but a good story teller. Very fun read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 13, 2012

    Finally

    Have read all the other books about Kevin's adventures, it's nice to finally read the true story of how it all went down.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 7, 2012

    Great Book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2012

    Great book

    A funny entertaining read! A must get!!

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  • Posted December 30, 2011

    A must!

    Great book... especially if you feel like nerding out

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2011

    Go Mitnick!

    This is a great bio! If you are reading this then you MUST BUY this book!

    Locke

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 22, 2011

    Highly Recommended-You must check it out.

    A great read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 9, 2011

    Great

    Brought out the truth ... all of kevins books are must reads.

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  • Posted November 14, 2011

    Learning how to hack more than just phones

    This book follows Kevin Mitnick¿s life, from childhood to adulthood. The book explains how he got into hacking and just how far that took him. The book is a great read because its tone doesn¿t sound factual like a textbook, but rather like you¿re listening to him personally tell the story. He describes his life vividly. He talks not only about how easy and simple it was to hack into telephones and computers, but also how easy it was to trick people into giving him what he needed he calls this ¿social engineering.¿ He described the thrill of gaining new data and the ridiculous notions that some people truly believed. In the story he tells it like it is, the backstabbing friends, a person¿s fear of the unknown, rumors being accepted as truth, the law not always being just. It¿s hard to hate the character knowing that what he was doing was wrong, but he never once gained a profit from his hacking. Kevin had many opportunities to become a hardened criminal, an uncatchable thief making millions off of others hard work, but he only hacked for fun describing it like wining at the next level of a video game. When in jail he tries to explain to an inmate that he ¿didn¿t do it for the money;¿ he ¿did it for the entertainment¿ and that¿s what confused many law officials. In the book he shows no remorse for what he had done rather its sounds like he is boasting and bragging, but to me there is nothing wrong with that. People brag about anything that will get them attention, good or bad. I enjoyed this book because not only does it explain how he breaks in, but he breaks it down so that even though one may not be into technology they get the base of it. It also shows the faults that people have, and how vulnerable a person or a company can be.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 12, 2011

    Good book

    It is a very interesting novel about something but i didnt read it yet. Should i?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 27, 2011

    Watch Catch Me If You Can. Same Story...More Interesting

    Although I enjoyed the walk down memory lane with computer systems and operating systems I cut my teeth on, the main subject of the book is 'social engineering', which is basically becoming whatever someone else needs you to be long enough for them to trust you and do what you want. I didn't enjoy that part of the book, or this guy's story. By the end of it, I wouldn't believe him if he said the sky is blue without external confirmation. Not my favorite book.

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  • Posted September 22, 2011

    An interesting read but not a page-turner.

    The book was interesting, but it became repetitive...he hacks in, he gets caught, he hacks in, he gets caught. Plus, for techno-dinosaurs like me, I didn't understand some of the lingo. Techies might like it better than I did.

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  • Posted September 7, 2011

    Highly Recommended!!!!! A must read for hacker and non-hacker alike.

    One of the most humble and honest telling of a personal story. Kevin pulls no punches and does not hide behind any excuses for what he did and why he did it (I pulled the fire alarm on my first day of kindergarten to see what it would do). He fully acknowledges the consequences of his actions and atones for them by giving back in this book. This story is the true and original definition of hacker, not what the media has twisted it into. A must read for anyone wishing to understand the mindset and drive of a hacker. Thank you Kevin for bringing to the light (even though geeks tend to avoid light) what it is we strive for - knowledge.

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