In an escalating contest, computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is pitting himself against the U.S. Probation Department in Los Angeles. Media Web site Contentville.com sought to hire Mitnick as a columnist before probation officials ordered him off the journalism and lecture circuits. Mitnick served nearly five years in prison after a computer crime spree that cost corporate America millions of dollars.
May 08, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
In an escalating contest that pits notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick against the U.S. Probation Department in Los Angeles, First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams is throwing his considerable influence behind Mitnick.
“I expect to be making a submission on behalf of Contentville.com,” Abrams says, referring to a media Web site that sought to hire Mitnick as a columnist before probation officials ordered him off the journalism and lecture circuits April 12.
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