Forwarded from: Jason Scott <jason@private> Hello, William. Once the documentary I'm working on is done, I'm turning back to look at journalistic overviews of Hackers, and while there have been many people who have done good work, a lot of it would best be defined as "suspect". In this case, I was idly wondering why I'd never heard of Deb Radcliff's "Best-Selling" Mitnick book. I've wasted a bit of time this early morning trying to match her name to it, and I am, simply, failing. Obviously, she didn't write a book on Mitnick; she did some sort of research for another book on Mitnick, but which one? What got me going on this was the word "best-selling". Authors don't write that their books are "best-selling" unless they, themselves, have something they are "selling". Dissing phone phreaking, which has specifically different nomenclature over the years but also contains a lot of rich history, also didn't help. This from someone who "spoke" at a HOPE conference, which itself is based off of a phreaking magazine; you'd think she's give the term a tad more respect. My question is: what the hell is the book she so happily calls best-selling but won't bother giving the title of? Her own SITE won't even tell me: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=+site%3Awww.deb.radcliff.com+mitnick I'm sorry, that's just suspicious behaviour. Why call something best-selling and not even tell you what it is? On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, InfoSec News wrote: > http://www.networklifemag.com/weblogs/securitychief/2005/007187.html > > By Deb Radcliff > Network Life, 01/09/05 -=- Forwarded rom: Jason Scott <jason@private> Further searching using Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature shows that Deb Radcliff is thanked by Jonathan Littman for editing help in his book "The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Kevin Poulsen". Since Littman is also the author of "The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick", I am going to make the slight jump that this the the "Best-Selling" Kevin Mitnick book that she helped do research for. She is, however, not thanked, mentioned or discussed in the book in any fashion that I could find. Is this it? Am I correct? Is she dropping Kevin Mitnick's name because she did some background checks for Littman for his Mitnick book? Disclosure: I really, really like Kevin Poulsen. He wrote the best article on me and my work that I've ever read. As a result I am not fond of Jonathan Littman and his work. _________________________________________ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/
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