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5) Tsutomu Shimomura
2010
Shimomura reached fame in an unfortunate manner: he was hacked by Kevin Mitnick. Following this personal attack, hemade it his cause to help the FBI capture him. Shimomura’s work to catch Mitnick is commendable, but he is not withouthis own dark side. Author Bruce Sterling recalls: "He pulls out this AT&T cellphone, pulls it out of the shrinkwrap, finger-hacks it, and starts monitoring phone calls going up and down Capitol Hill FBI agent is standing at his shoulder,
listening to him. ” Shimomura out - hacked Mitnick to bring him down after finding ou t about the intrusion, he
rallied a team and got to work finding Mitnick. Using Mitnick’s they tracked him near Raleigh -DurhamInternational Airport.
The article, "SDSC Computer Experts Help FBI Capture Computer recounts how Shimomura pinpointed Mitnick’slocation. Armed with a technician from the phone company, Shimomura "used a cellular frequency direction-findingantenna hooked up to a laptop to narrow the search to an apartment complex.” Mitnick was arrested shortly ther eafter.Following the pursuit, Shimomura wrote a book about the incident with journalist John Markoff, which was later turnedinto a movie.
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