Comment My personal Mitnick story (Score 2, Interesting) 242
When I was going to school, I worked at Kinko's. I worked at the branch in Thousand Oaks/Westlake California, which happens to be a more upscale community. We used to get all sorts of notable people coming in to get copies. While most of my co-workers were always freaking out when the more mainstream celebrities would come in (Tom Selleck, Hulk Hogan, Heather Locklear, Will Smith, and Martin Lawrence are a few that spring in to mind), I was always more impressed by some of the more obscure personailities that would come in, including my personal favorite Bas Rutten - who, incendentally, is such a nice guy that none of my co-workers would believe me when I told them what he did for a living.
However, the one "customer" that was the most interesting was Kevin Mitnick. For those of you who do not know, Kevin lives in Thousand Oaks. At the time, he lived about a quarter mile from Kinko's. He came in just about every day over a three month span. Myself and one of the graveyard guys were the only ones who even knew who Kevin Mitnick was. He used to come in, with a laptop, and set up over in one of the corners. He would never plug into our network, which was kind of odd, so everyone just assumed that he was coming in just to have a place to do some work.
One night, our cleaning crew discovered an 802.11b wireless internet hub hidden under a table. It was plugged into our network. The next morning, we unplugged it (FWIW, I believe the graveyard guy ended up taking it home). That day, Kevin came in, went to his normal spot, and started up his laptop. He started looking around, real confused, and walked over to where we had found the hub. When he saw that it was gone, he started looking really panicked. He went and picked up his laptop and left, all the time holding a piece of paper up to hide his face from the cameras. That was the last time he ever came in.
