Kevin Mitnick: The Man Who Hacked People
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Story of the most famous social engineering hacker.
Most corporate rivalries are forgotten within a decade. The split that tore apart MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the early 1980s is different, because one of its casualties walked away so disillusioned that he launched a movement which now underpins much of the modern software world. The "Lisp Machine wars" were never literal warfare — calling them that oversells it — but the bitterness was real, the stakes felt enormous to the people inside, and the fallout reshaped computing in ways nobody at the time intended.
The fastest chip that did not make it.