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  Beveiligingslek.nl - Informatie over Kevin Poulsen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Kevin zag het levenslicht in 1965, in het plaatsje Pasedena liggend in het zonnige Californië.
Poulsen werd aangeklaagd voor computerfraude, het inbreken en inkijken van geheime FBI-zaken, het witwassen van geld en het dwarsbomen van de overheid.
Kevin Poulsen heeft (naar eigen zeggen) zijn leven verbeterd en is in 2000 journalist geworden.
www.beveiligingslek.nl /kevin-poulsen.html   (297 words)

  
 Kevin Poulsen
Kevin Poulsen was among the most accomplished, multi-talented hackers.
Poulsen's best known hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller, and winning a Porsche 944 S2.
In June 1994, Poulsen pleaded guilty to seven counts of mail, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, and was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $56,000 in restitution.
www.livinginternet.com /i/ia_hackers_poulsen.htm   (194 words)

  
  Kevin Poulsen
When Kevin Poulsen was 17, he used his primitive TRS-80 "color computer" to hack into the US Department of Defense's Arpanet, the predecessor of the Internet.
But Poulsen was captured shortly after the episode aired in 1991, when employees in a supermarket recognized him and tackled him in the aisles.
Poulsen's adventures were detailed in a thriller biography, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen, by Jon Littman.
www.nndb.com /people/453/000022387   (425 words)

  
 Why is Kevin Lee Poulsen Really in Jail?
Kevin's still kicking himself for returning to Hugh's for the second time that evening, by which time an "associate" of his had warned the FBI that he might be in the vicinity.
Poulsen, by the way, is also staring down the barrel of a very heavy collection agency, indeed: the federal government stands to bill him in the neighborhood of $5 million dollars for the illicit programming if he's convicted.
Poulsen's technique, which allegedly included fake addresses and social security numbers, was so complete that the radio stations, even the ones duped more than once, never knew they were handing over Porches, cash, and all-expenses-paid Hawaiian vacations to the same guy over and over again.
www.well.com /user/fine/journalism/jail.html   (1893 words)

  
 thesite: Kevin Poulsen
Poulsen had always operated on the edge of legality, but for many years he adhered to the "hacker ethic," a code of behavior that forbids profit or violence.
The FBI began investigating Poulsen, and he eventually was charged with several crimes, including violation of national security.
Though it's certain that Kevin Poulsen did commit crimes, the degree and motives for his behavior are far from clear.
www.pantar.com /pubs/kevinpoulsen.html   (537 words)

  
 Kevin Poulsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin Poulsen (born 1965 in Pasadena, California, USA) is a former fl hat hacker.
Poulsen enjoyed brief celebrity in the tech world upon his release from federal prison, and was the subject of the book Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen, a work which Poulsen himself has decried.
Poulsen has reinvented himself as a journalist since his release from prison, and sought to distance himself from his criminal past.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kevin_Poulsen   (547 words)

  
 Free Kevin Mitnick
Kevin has been held without bail for three years and four months pending his trial on a 25 count federal indictment, and it will likely be more than four years without bail by the time his trial actually takes place.
Kevin is the victim of a campaign to hype his story, a campaign which has made millions of dollars for those responsible.
Kevin is obviously being singled out to act as an example for other hackers, and the message is pretty clear so far: that the government can do as it pleases when it comes to hackers, civil rights be damned.
www.spectacle.org /898/mitnick.html   (1650 words)

  
 Sci-Tech Today
Poulsen found Lubrano trolling on MySpace.com, and Lubrano got caught chatting online explicitly about sex with a detective he believed to be a teenager.
Kevin Poulsen, a one-time hacker and now senior editor at Wired, reports that he helped police nail the convicted pedophile with 1,000 lines of code he wrote over the period of several months.
In fairness though, Poulsen was quick to point out the program he developed can only locate sex offenders who are registered under the law and are also foolish enough to use their own names online.
www.sci-tech-today.com /story.xhtml?story_id=10200BDZSWQO   (704 words)

  
 Kevin Poulsen: As a "Federal at jimlog 2.0
Kevin Poulsen: As a "Federal at jimlog 2.0
Kevin Poulsen: As a "Federal terrorism offense," the five year statute of limitations for hacking would be abolished retroactively - allowing computer crimes committed decades ago to be prosecuted today - and the maximum prison term for a single conviction would be upped to life imprisonment.
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www.jimgilliam.com /archives/2001/09/kevin_poulsen_as_a_federal.php   (71 words)

  
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The Poulsens couldn't conceive that letting their son cloister himself in his room all day tapping away at the keyboard could be bad for him.
Poulsen's father said he had last heard from his son three weeks ago and that he had refused to give him the address for his Los Angeles apartment.
Incidentally, Poulsen also was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1984 computer break-in case at the University of California at Los Angeles.
www.textfiles.com /news/kevin.pol   (6018 words)

  
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Poulsen, Minor Threat, the guy who "killed" that woman via the Social Security administration, a small handful of others that I might not be aware of, and then Mitnick.
KEVIN POULSEN Convicted in 1991 Sentence: four years in prison, three-year ban from computer use, fine Armed with the "Trash-80" his parents gave him, Dark Dante (Kevin Poulsen) was adept at trespassing ARPANET and other government and private networks.
Poulsen was tried and convicted of computer crimes in relation to his new-found Porsche fetish and given the harshest hacker sentence ever: four years in prison, a US $58,000 fine, and a ban from using computers for three years after his release.
members.tripod.com /~empallin/Free_Kevin_Mitnick/Mitnick-Digest_179.txt   (4758 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Poulsen received his first computer, a TRS-80, from his parents as a child, and he just kept going from there to become the first espionage case for law enforcement.
Poulsen became an expert at hacking into telephone lines and military and government systems.
Perhaps the most famous of Poulsen's exploits came on June 1, 1990 when he hacked into a radio station's 25 telephone lines so that could be the 102nd caller.
www.unc.edu /~joje/research5.html   (419 words)

  
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Amazingly, Kevin has never had the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses in an adversarial detention hearing, as is required by the Bail Reform Act.
By Kevin Poulsen If you suspect your kid is a computer hacker, here's some advice from a convicted hacker on how to handle it It starts with a knock on the door.
kevin's case, sadly enough, is a pawn in this struggle; judge pfaelzer is a key player in this struggle (though i'm guessing she is unaware of/doesn't care about the larger political issues at stake in kevin's case) if her recent decisions to deny a bail *hearing* are any indication.
members.tripod.com /~empallin/Free_Kevin_Mitnick/Mitnick-Digest_184.txt   (6054 words)

  
 bit-tech.net | How to catch a paedophile on Myspace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Former hacker and current Senior Editor of Wired, Kevin Poulsen, has recently sparked a bit of internet controversy by uncovering paedophiles lurking in Web 2.0 wonderland, Myspace.
Five months ago Poulsen wrote a few lines of code which searched through Myspace's 1 million plus user profiles searching for the names and addresses of anyone who is on the sex offenders list.
Poulsen claims that Myspace said that what he was doing was not possible.
www.bit-tech.net /news/2006/10/17/How_to_catch_a_paedophile_on_Myspace   (384 words)

  
 INTRODUCTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Kevin knew so much about the phone system that he was able to take over the stations 25 phone lines, wait for 101 calls to go through and then drop down on the line and be the 102nd caller.
Poulsen was not caught for this incident, but was arrested for other crimes related to hacking, then the Porsche contest was discovered.
Someone pointed it out to the FBI that their star witness against Kevin Poulsen was doing all kinds of fraud and other illegal activities.
www.savage.net /public_html/net/steal.html   (704 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen: Books: Jonathan Littman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Kevin Poulsen electronically seized the phone lines of a major Los Angeles radio station to make certain he was the 101st caller.
Poulsen became the first computer hacker in history to be charged with espionage, and in all he was charged with 19 counts of computer fraud, wiretapping, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Kevin's crew seemed to assume that since they were never caught they never would be (pp.230-9).
www.amazon.com /Watchman-Twisted-Crimes-Serial-Poulsen/dp/0316528579   (2073 words)

  
 TLC :: Hackers: Hackers' Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Poulsen won a Porsche 944 S2 for his efforts.
Current status: Thanks to an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, Kevin Poulsen was arrested and spent three years in prison.
Poulsen is now a self-proclaimed "reformed and penitent" journalist, and serves as editorial director for Security Focus.
tlc.discovery.com /convergence/hackers/bio/bio_07.html   (183 words)

  
 Beveiligingslek.nl - Informatie over hacken en cracken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Het woord cracken lijkt veel op het woord hacken, qua betekenis is het het zelfde alleen als je er verder op in gaat kom je erachter dat cracken een minder leuke manier van hacken is. De mensen die cracken heten crackers.
Kevin Mitnick en Kevin Poulsen zijn de namen van 2 bekende hackers, op deze pagina over Kevin Mitnick staat de geschiedenis over hem.
Op de pagina over Kevin Poulsen staat informatie over hem.
www.beveiligingslek.nl   (129 words)

  
 Relief, anger greet Mitnick plea | Tech News on ZDNet
When imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick pleaded guilty to seven felonies last Friday -- assenting to a plea agreement that may see him released by the end of the year -- the news quickly spread to observers with very different interpretations of its significance.
Kevin was forced into this position by the overwhelming resources at the government's disposal," said Eric Corley.
Kevin Poulsen is a former hacker who writes a weekly column for ZDTV's CyberCrime.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-514173.html   (797 words)

  
 Howstuffworks "How did a computer programmer find all those sex offenders on My"
One of the sex offenders Poulsen uncovered had been actively compiling a list of young friends and sending the underage boys sexually explicit, private messages.
Poulsen admits that he ended up with a bunch of false positives in the program's reported matches, which he was able to weed out by comparing the MySpace profiles to the mug shots and ages included the sex-offender database.
Poulsen's code will soon be released in open-source format so police departments can have full access to the program.
computer.howstuffworks.com /myspace-predator-code.htm   (533 words)

  
 Kevin Mitnick Links
The Condor Brief Excellent analysis by Kevin Poulsen on the difference between fraud and theft as applied to Kevin Mitnick's case.
Week of Chaos Kevin Poulsen column on ZDNet which includes mention of the continuance request filed by Donald Randolph in January 1999.
Mitnick: I was never a malicious person Kevin Poulsen article on ZDNet dated 7/30/1999 about the defense motion to unseal filings which may prove the government impoperly led Kevin's "victims" to overstate their losses.
www.albany.net /~dsissman/mitnick.html   (5676 words)

  
 DailyTech - Registered Sex Offenders Found on MySpace
Poulsen reveals in a Wired article how he helped to indentify and catch a known sex offender who was preying upon young boys through MySpace.
The code that Kevin Poulsen quickly wrote was far from perfect and turned up many false or unverifiable matches.
Today, Kevin Poulsen is releasing to the public the code he wrote that helped to identify sex offenders on MySpace.
www.dailytech.com /article.aspx?newsid=4620   (2525 words)

  
 J. Littman: The Watchman - Kevin Poulsen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
"Poulsen is a fascinating character perfectly dissected by Littman's razor-edged pen."
--- Kevin believes the government is fighting with press releases as much as it is with indictments and convictions.
In the ensuing vacuum, hackers have become the latest threat to American society, and Kevin Poulsen is falling into the government's crosshairs at exactly the wrong time.
users.tkk.fi /~jpaulin/books/poulsen.htm   (132 words)

  
 Kevin Poulsen: See what people are saying right now on Technorati   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Kevin Poulsen of Wired magazine fame has done something that MySpace says can not be done, and immediately rockets ahead of the class to "Infosec...
Kevin Poulsen, my rocking editor at Wired News, made me an offer I couldn't refuse -- co-blogging with him over on the Wired News site.
Kevin Poulsen per day for the last 30 days.
www.technorati.com /tag/Kevin%20Poulsen   (224 words)

  
 OneKIT :: Reviews & Articles :: The top 10 hacks of all time
Kevin Mitnick, often incorrectly called by many as god of hackers, broke into the computer systems of the world's top technology and telecommunications companies Nokia, Fujitsu, Motorola, and Sun Microsystems.
When a Los Angeles area radio station announced a contest that awarded a Porsche 944S2 for the 102nd caller, Kevin Poulsen took control of the entire city's telephone network, ensured he is the 102nd caller, and took away the Porsche beauty.
Arpanet was a global network of computers, and Poulsen took advantage of a loophole in its architecture to gain temporary control of the US-wide network.
www.onekit.com /store/review/392.html   (648 words)

  
 The Watchman : The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen
Neither was I impressed by Kevin's putative depth of knowledge, nor did he indicate that this book bore the least relationship to his exploits.
This is required reading for anyone wishing to know the darker side of the hacker sub-culture, about Kevin Poulsen, Ron Austin or Justin Petersen and some of their creative mischief and crimes.
The imagery is great, and you start to feel a closeness and sympathy for Kevin, and you forget at the time he was a criminal.
www.patch-management.com /patch-management-0316528579.html   (591 words)

  
 Channel One Myths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The prosecution in the current federal case provided that figure as an estimate of the damages caused by Kevin, but only mentioned it in its opposition to a bail motion advanced by the defense; the prosecution did not include that figure in any part of the indictment.
If the "damaged" companies had suffered losses due to Kevin's activities, they would have been legelly obligated to report those losses to their stockholders, and to the SEC.
(Kevin was found to be in possession of a file listing approximately 20,000 credit card numbers.
www.albany.net /~dsissman/channelone.html   (542 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen: Books: Jonathan Littman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
A good book at all, while it can be take as a precise decsription of KP actions it shows very much of the 3l33t hacking in California.
When we cross names involved in KP saga with those cited by Shimomura in Takedown it is clear Kevin was not just another suburban phreaker.
However Kevin Poulsen claims that Littman never checked any of the facts with him, and that Littman is just trying to cash in.
www.amazon.co.uk /Watchman-Twisted-Crimes-Serial-Poulsen/dp/0316528579   (753 words)

  
 The Books: The Watchman by Jonathan Littman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
When authorities found a locker crammed with swiped telecommunications equipment, Poulsen became a fugitive from the FBI, living the life of a cyberpunk in a neon Hollywood underground.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Poulsen, his confederates, and the authorities, Littman spins a thrilling chase story on the electronic frontier.
On Los Angeles' lucrative radio giveaways, Poulsen worked his magic, winning Porsches and tens of thousands of dollars.
www.twbookmark.com /books/82/0316528579   (421 words)

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