The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick, with William L. Simon, Wiley, £19.95/$27.50, ISBN 0471237124 Reviewed by Wendy M. Grossman
IT TOOK Google a split second to find the National Crime Information Center manual on an Ohio law-enforcement site. An it’s just as Kevin Mitnick says: the manual is full of codes and instructions for retrieving information from the FBI database. Does it matter, since only authorised people have access to the database? Sure it does, if you like to engage in the sport he calls “social engineering”.
Mitnick, of course, earned notoriety for his hacking exploits. This book doesn’t…
