Phreaking Documentaries (Kevin Poulsen)

This documentary (NBC - Unsolved Mysteries) is centered around the story of Kevin Poulsen a.k.a Dark Dante, a phone phreak whose best hack was winning a Porsche by making himself the 102nd caller in an LA radio station contest. Kevin did this hack by taking control the telephone company switches and the incoming call stream into the station's dial in number.

This documentary traces through Kevin's early days as a phone phreaker and how was let off by the FBI multiple times with warnings as he was underage to be arrested. Kevin, however, continued with his hacking and was finally nabbed and sent to prison for around 3 years. Interestingly the FBI received a tip off after the NBC show was bradcasted and was nabbed in a super market. Poulsen, also hid handcuff keys in his contact lens case and when arrested requested the feds to get the case as his contacts were drying up. :)

Vivek Ramachandran is a security evangelist and has been working in computer security related fields for the past 7 years. In 2007, Vivek spoke at world renowned conferences Defcon (WEP Cloaking Exposed) and Toorcon (The Caffe Latte Attack). The discovery of the Caffe Latte Attack was covered by CBS5 news, BBC online, Network World etc news agencies.In 2006, Vivek was announced as one of winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among 65,000 participants. He has also been a recipient of a Team Achievement at Cisco Systems for his work on 802.1x and Port Security modules on the Catalyst 6500 switches. Currently he spends all of his time maintaining Security- Freak.Net , SecurityTube.Net and is the co-founder of Axonize. Vivek, is a Bachelor in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.You can contact him at vivek[at]securitytube.net