In 1991, Kevin Mitnick was bouncing back from what was probably the lowest point of his life.

His rich criminal record made it hard for him to find employment.

He gained a lot of weight in prison, and to top it off, his wife finally had enough of all the troubles he dragged her into and left him for his best friend and hacking body.

Over the following months, Metnick started to rebuild his life. He started working out and

lost a hundred pounds and most importantly he was finally on the path

towards ditching his self-destructive obsession of hacking.

But just as he was in the process of turning his life around, his brother introduced

him to a hacker named Eric Hines, who told him about a mysterious piece of equipment he came across while breaking into Pacific Bell.

SAS, a testing system that allowed its user to listen in on all the calls going through the telephone network.

SAS proved to be too great of a temptation for Midnik who desperately wanted to wield

the power that the testing system could afford him. Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Welcome to Cyber reasons malicious life. After a bit of probing he discovered that the company that designed SAS went out of business, but Mitnick was able to find the guy who was the

systems lead engineer and convinced the man to send him a copy of the systems manual.

Eric was right.

S.S. was every bit as powerful as Mitnick hoped

and allowed him to monitor the phone company's

lingo for wiretapping any phone number he wished to. And yet,

Metnick's intuition told him that something about the other hacker was off.

Eric was very secretive to the point that he even refused to give Midnik his phone

number or home address. Whenever Midnik tried asking questions about his past, Eric was quick to change the subject.

What was Eric trying to hide?

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