Tsutomu Shimomura - the Physicist Who Set up Kevin Mitnick

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This article is part of my series of special summer hackers. Good reading! Well, I know that when we talk about the Kevin Mitnick affair, there are always two camps that snare. But, the story of Tsutomu Shimomura, it's great cinema. Christmas 1994, the physicist returns quietly to his home in Solana Beach and there, he discovers that someone has entered his computer system. And not through a classical physical break-in, not, but by the cathode-r…