the.com/kevin mitnick
hacked companies for fun, then got paid to teach them how he did it.
means a hacker who breached major tech and telecom firms in the 90s, mostly through social engineering, then became a celebrated security consultant.
from rose to fame as the fbi's most-wanted hacker in the mid-1990s, arrested in 1995 after evading capture for years; served five years in prison, later ran his own cybersecurity firm and testified before congress.
phone privilegesjail officials feared he could hack nasa via payphone
weapon of choicesocial engineering, not code, cracked most systems
redemption arcwent from most-wanted to sought-after security consultant
bestselling authorwrote the art of deception, industry classic