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1. Kevin Mitnick (born 6th August 1963) had quite the colorful criminal record, including supplying fraudulent information to police, piracy and even a count of assisted suicide based on his involvement with the hacking of the computer of a Chicago man who shot himself after losing valuable data. This charge was later dropped on account of lack of evidence to support the claim. What was his initial charge after the F.B.I arrested him on February 15th, 1995?
2. Not only was Kevin in trouble with the police, various other companies sued him based on losses that had plagued them as a result of either their employees' information being compromised, internal servers being compromised or just generally because they believed he was leaking the secrets he accumulated to other business rivals. Which of these companies DID NOT sue Kevin Mitnick following his arrest?
3. Kevin's final accumulated sentence was 5 years. He spent 8 months of that in solitary confinement, as the maximum security prison he was in feared his intelligence, and that he might, with the help of other prisoners, orchestrate a breakout. How many years of those 5 were served pre-trial?
4. The men who caught him, expert government employed hackers John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura, wrote a book about the ordeal afterwards, which was turned into a major motion picture by Miramax, titled _______ ?
5. Kevin was notorious for being a member of a gang that popularized the use of which breakfast cereal's toy whistle as a means of hacking phones?
6. Another contributing factor was that Mitnick's girlfriend "blew the whistle" on Kevin, speculating that he could cause a nuclear attack by whistling into a phone. What was her name?
7. On August 20th, 2006, a group of hackers raided Kevin's webpage and defaced it with slogans and personal attacks. An investigation was started. What nationality was the group believed to be?
8. Kevin gathered many supporters due to the widespread media coverage of his arrest. Some even started movements to gain his acquittal. Who started the original "FREE KEVIN" campaign?
9. Kevin has made cameo appearances in many games, citing his love for the industry as the driving factor. He has appeared as a radio show call-in in which prominent and controversial series?
10. Under his supervised release, which ended in 2003, Mitnick was banned from accessing all technology except for a landline telephone. Mitnick fought this decision in court and won, allowing him to access what piece of technology?
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