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Hacker Bequeaths Porsche To Man Who Smelled The Rat

Kevin Mitnick, the legendary hacker, once tried to social-engineer his way into Novell's network by phoning a network admin named Shawn Nunley late at night, posing as an employee who needed "direct inbound modem access" for a top-secret project. Nunley smelled a rat, played…