I was almost sucked in there for a second. I used to visit Attrition regularly back in the day and I was sorely tempted to just browse and read the fuck out of it for the rest of the day.
Anyway, the following (linked from mefi) is one of the many classic email exchanges archived at Attrition. In this installment, a user writes in to ask if the attrition guys can hack into his school's server to change his GPA. Hilarity ensues.
Mitnick on Security
Dude knows what he's talking about. He had books and movies made about his life as the super-hacker and his greatest skill wasn't coding, it was social engineering- talking his way into access…
In a perfect world, I wouldn't pay attention to this stuff. Oh well.
I'm a newly minted member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Sort of lame that it's taken me this long, but what can you do?
When you break into the N.Y. Times' network and drop quotes like, " 'A total outsider figuring out how to run a network remotely is pretty much a self-administered IT orientation course on meth,'" you're bound to get a little bit of coverage.