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Shimomura, Tsutomu - technical definition
A computational physicist who at just 30 years
of age helped the U.S. federal authorities catch cracker Kevin D. Mitnick in 1995. At that time, frequent
cracker Mitnick (who is now a computer security consultant and computer
security book writer), was on the FBIÂ’s
Ten Most Wanted fugitives list. Following the capture of Mitnick, Shimomura
wrote the book Takedown to
describe the event, and in 2002, a movie of the same name was released. He is
now a Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
See Also: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Mitnick, Kevin (a.k.a. Condor).
Schell, B.H., Dodge, J.L., with S.S. Moutsatsos. The
Hacking of America: WhoÂ’s Doing It, Why, and How. Westport, CT: Quorum
Books, 2002.