I can count on one hand the number of people who’ve significantly influenced a generation of IT professionals: Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, Richard Stallman and Kevin Mitnick. I’ve had the unique privilege of interviewing two of the people in this list (Stallman and Mitnick). Each of the men in this list has his own unique approach to shaping the world in which he lives but they all have one thing in common: Passion for what they do. But, it’s not a normal passion, it’s an all-consuming passion that seeps from every pore of their being. It’s rare and it’s what sets them apart from everyone else. There is a special pace to their speech–a cadence of thought–and a childlike thrill in their hearts for what they do. This is a summary of my interview with Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most famous and most passionate hacker. Kevin Mitnick was the first famous hacker that I remember. He had a face and a name. He looked like a regular guy to me. He certainly didn’t fit into the Ectomorphic Cerebrotonic somatotype that I expected. He didn’t look like an evildoer and he didn’t sound like an evildoer. But, to law enforcement, including… Read full this story
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