If you remember the kid in A Wednesday and don’t remember the chap who was asked to track Naseeruddin Shah’s whereabouts and still don’t know even a shred about Kevin Mitnick then you are at the right place. Kevin Mitnick is not another obscure hacker/cracker. He is the image behind geeky larger than life hackers shown in movies. Yes, Kevin Mitnick the Brand is the same about whom your bank release notifications.
A legend in his own right, Mitnick was semi-biographed in 2000’s Takedown/Trackdown/Hackers 2 [see, different names for the same movie… that’s geeky]. Takedown was based on a book by the same name written by John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura. The movie spoke about the cyber war between a hacker and a cracker- Mitnick and Shimomura. Though Shimomura stood by his own version; Mitnick said that the book and hence, the movie were full of inaccuracies. It told the story from a biased point of view. Incidentally, records support Mitnick on this.
Innumerous characters have been influenced by this legend. Just think of any of those geeky characters who can hack into any system with anything made available and come up with an unbelievable still believable outcome… that’s Mitnick. That includes… Jagdish (Abhishek Bachchan) in Om Jai Jagdish. A hacker turned cyber security expert…
Written By: Sujoy Ghosh
1 comment:
Nice post. Mitnick is definitely a legend. The geeky character in The Core was also loosely based on him only...
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