Malicious Life Podcast: Kevin Mitnick, Part 1

A narrative account traces Kevin Mitnick’s evolution from teenage phreaker to notorious social engineer, highlighting techniques such as pretexting, call-forwarding, dumpster diving, and telephone-switch intrusions, his arrests and solitary confinement, personal fallout, a brief reformation, and his eventual draw back into hacking by the lure of Pacific Bell’s SAS system—setting the stage for a sting by a fake "Eric Heinz."