Kevin Mitnick's laptop on eBay

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: Valhalla1
please tell me Mitnick did not hack on this thing from Windows 95...

Windows 95 wasn't available in Feb 95 when he was cought. It came out around Oct. of 95.

 

[iamwiz82]

ha, i bet those are fake bids. Notice how it stopped at the point that ebay starts verifying bidders?

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
ha, i bet those are fake bids. Notice how it stopped at the point that ebay starts verifying bidders?

Yeah, and it's the same high-bidder on both. He chose a great name, too.

 

[Valhalla1]

Originally posted by: AdamK47 - 3DS

Originally posted by: Valhalla1
please tell me Mitnick did not hack on this thing from Windows 95...

Windows 95 wasn't available in Feb 95 when he was cought. It came out around Oct. of 95.

oh dear... even worse, hacking from Windows 3.11 ?! please tell me mitnick used some flavor of linux on this laptop to do his dirty work

 

[Jugernot]

Wow, I've got the winning bid!



















I"m kidding....

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: Valhalla1

Originally posted by: AdamK47 - 3DS

Originally posted by: Valhalla1
please tell me Mitnick did not hack on this thing from Windows 95...

Windows 95 wasn't available in Feb 95 when he was cought. It came out around Oct. of 95.

oh dear... even worse, hacking from Windows 3.11 ?! please tell me mitnick used some flavor of linux on this laptop to do his dirty work

He was probably using DOS like I was. I had Win 3.11, but I would just exit to DOS to do most things like BBSing, gaming and file management. I don't think he had Linux. It wasn't as well known at the time as it is now.