yes, let me do that. >> for more information on it kevin mitnick visit mitnick security dot com. >> in your book you talk about one of those life changing moments. you are watching the hearings. what happens to andrew breitbart? >> i just graduated from college, a place where it was like my bar mitzvah. i thought in my bar mitzvah of that i learned an education budget is in, but i left feeling very empty because i just learned how to chant. i was open for a spiritual experience. i felt the same way in college. i was an american studies major. the stuff i was reading was incomprehensible and jargon. it was none chomsky like in its lack of comprehension to a person who does not understand that language. it was demoralizing. i graduated less skilled, less motivated, and i was a waiter my education was a lack of an education. and so i was waiting tables right after i graduated college. i finished my shift. >> your friends would say to you, why are you doing this? >> it was embarrassing and humiliating. the best thing that ever happened in my life, the humiliation of having to work. the peo

[inaudible conversations] >> for more permission on kevin mitnick visit mitnick security dot com. >>hat are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. ♪ tell us what you are reading this summer. send us that tweets @booktv. >> and the core issue just to kind of pan out of little bit is, how did you get young people into the work force? in this case specifically the white-collar work force. how do you move students, especially from site 101 classrooms in a building like this into office jobs where they will probably be in our service economy? what is that process? what is the best way to do that, the most humane way to do that, and the way that ensures a sort of highest level of social justice possible in terms of making that an equitable process. i essentially find that the current haphazard unregulated free-for-all system of internships has grown up to be inadequate. details are test of what would be a rational, humane, and even efficient way of getting people from point a to point b. just to see it on of very macro level. anyway, internships originated. the term in turn origin

computer hacker, kevin mitnick, he spent the three years he hid away from the fbi. he was captured in 1995 served nearly 5 years in prison and is currently a security consultant who has testified before the u.s. senate on information security. this is just over an hour. hacker >> good morning, everyone. and turn blew on, please. just kidding. it's fantastic to be here. ghost in the wires took two years. myself and my co-author, bill simon -- raise your hand, worked on this. [applause] >> great. use of done it without bill. i mean, we had much -- we had different work schedules because i usually slept into 2:00 pm and worked till 5:00 pm. bill worked 6:00 am to 6 spokes and i put him on spanish time. get ready for the second edition. if you know a little bit about my computer background, i obviously was a computer hacker and ended up in a lot of hot water and for seven years i was actually restricted for writing this book. i was released from custody in 2000, in 2007 after seven years, then i was permitted to go ahead and tell the story. and how i started with comput

[inaudible conversations] >> for more information on kevin mitnick, visit mitnick security.com. >> i began two years before the bombs began to fall in cuba, exactly two years today. april 5th team, 1959. that evening, fidel castro arrived in the united states. this was his first visit to the united states since taking over cuba at the start of the year. richard nixon was vice president, john kennedy was from massachusetts. to visit with something like a promise, he and his bearded entourage arrived in washington loaded this cuban round and castro spent most of his visit hugging and smiling and seeing all the right things. there were some americans, including some at the eisenhower administration, including dwight eisenhower himself that had serious concerns about eisenhower. mainly he was a communist, but many found him to be quite charming and certainly charismatic. after a few days in washington, castro went to new york city. from the moment he arrived at the station, where he was greeted by 20,000 people, he had a grand old time. he went to the top of the entire state will be in s

he'll never get my password it's-- (laughter) please welcome kevin mitnick.plause) >> thanks for coming on. great to meet you. >> great to meet you too. >> you sir were once considered the world's most famous hacker. the most wanted man in computer crime. correct? >> yes. >> okay. you are a consultant now but at one time you were, let's see, you bypassed the security systems of motorola, sun microsystems and pacific bell. >> yes, i did. >> you served jail time for this. how much. >> five years. >> five years. >> and a year in solitary confinement. >> why a year in solitary confinement. you don't look like a dangerous guy. >> i'm very dangerous. >> the prosecutor has told a judge during a bail hearing that i could pick up the telephone and connect to noraad and whistle the launch codes and launch a nuclear weapon. and because of this, the judge actually had to special order that i would have to be held in prison without access to a telephone. so the only place they could put me was in solitary confinement. so i was there about a year. >> stephen: and could you

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now, during the break, legendary computer hacker, kevin mitnick, set out to find out as much personale of our audience members, christopher, diana and dawn, and guess what, guys? he came up with some information... you hold that, that's diana's... take a look and see how much he was able to find out just with your first and last name. >> a lot. >> now, kevin, how did you do this? >> i simply went on the internet and accessed a database, uh, that all i need is a credit card number and i simply put in the first and last name in the state of new jersey, and that's how easy it was. >> i'm not going to give it out, but wait, let me see here. he has your social security number-- that's yours right? >> that's it, yeah. >> what's this right here? is this your address that you used to live at? >> yeah. >> don't give it out. >> correct, yes. >> is this another address you used to live at? >> yes. >> kevin, this, this, for a person who's a hacker or fairly decent at being a hacker, they could easily do this, and more. >> you don't have to be a hacker. all this information is already out there on

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