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TIME EXCLUSIVE (Document #44) Opinion: Convicted Hacker Kevin Mitnick
Recent Web Attacks Are Not 'Cool,' Or 'Impressive.
They Require No Sophistication'
New York - Convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick provides TIME with an insider's view of last week's Internet crises in an exclusive opinion piece in the current issue (on newsstands Monday, February 14)."If the terms of my release permitted me to do so, I'd tell the people running the sites that were hit three things, all of which they may have done by now: 1) use a network-monitoring tool to analyze the packets being sent to your site to determine their source, purpose and destination; 2) place your machines on different subnetworks of the larger network in order to present multiple defenses; and 3) install software tools that use packet filtering on the router or fire wall to reject any packets from known sources of denial-of-service traffic," Mitnick writes. Mitnick, who spent 59 months in federal prison, is prohibited from using cell phones and from providing advice on technology matters to companies in the business. His piece for TIME is for informational purposes only and shall not be construed as technical advice. "If I could talk with the people carrying out these disruptions, I'd tell them that their actions just aren't the cool thing to do: these attacks aren't impressive. They require no sophistication. They are analogous to throwing paint remover on cars driving down the street, and they're getting a bunch of people angry," Mitnick writes. "I've learned a very painful lesson--avoid any contact with the criminal-justice system, because it's a system that's stacked completely in favor of the prosecution."
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