Actually, yes and no. Kevin D. Mitnick's handle - "Condor" was from the 1975 movie "Three days of the Condor" starring Robert Redford as a bookish, former army signal man working for the CIA.
Tsutomu Shimomura does not, AFAIK, use a handle. Anyway, here are pics of the guys, as well as other well known hackers. http://www.hhs.csus.edu/cj/faculty/doc/compcrim/visual/pictureindex.htm > matt wrote: > > > Just curious, did Mitnick ever use a nickname or alias? How about > that > > other fellow, Shinimura (is the name correct)? > > he did. mitnick's handle was 'condor' after some cartoon > character... i don't think shimomura ever used one... he was > after all a computational physicist and a computer researcher > -- Juan Paolo Carballo SWIFTEL Datacom Limited POT: (852) 2388-1168/1053/1476 or 2625-1688 loc 128 FAX: (852) 2625-1501 5/F Ming Tak Bldg., 101 Wanchai Rd., Wanchai, Hong Kong, SAR, China 852 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
