Takedown Page #4

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You see this?

What? What are you looking at?

Where?

TAR file.

In a directory named "Contempt. "

Some of the code is encrypted.

What is this?

Sh*t.

I don't know.

This is like no code

I've seen before.

Right.

What have we got here, Tsutomu?

Looks like some worm and virus

code all rolled into one.

Like some stealth-attack code.

But I don't see any

government classifications.

In fact, there's no

propriety designation.

There's no CIA, no FBI, no NSA,

which is weird.

The "G" likes to take credit.

I don't think he did it

for Big Brother.

Come on, that doesn't

make any sense.

He would do it for himself?

Why would he do that?

Because he can.

Hi.

Hi.

Thanks for telling me.

I didn't know.

Hey.

Can I get you anything else?

Yeah.

Another espresso, please.

Reading about cyber terrorists?

The First Amendment

freedom fighters.

This is like the Contras

and the Sandinistas.

It's all a perspective thing.

Well, anything anti-Big Brother

is good, don't you think?

Yeah.

I'd have to agree with that.

Well, I'll get your espresso.

Hey.

I think, in the interest

of a free and open society,

that we should continue

this conversation.

You're on.

I'm Karen, by the way.

Yes?

This is in Seattle?

Right.

You confirm the MINs?

Jake, give me your number.

I'll call you back in an hour.

- Tsutomu?

- Yeah.

Jake Cronin,

Cellular One Fraud Division.

Whoa.

Whew!

Man, 15 minutes ago,

the sun was out.

In half an hour,

it will be again.

Welcome to Seattle.

So, for the past two weeks,

I've been tracking a suspect

who's been hijacking

cellular customers numbers.

You know, cloning MINs.

Well, their bills are

approaching $ 10,000.

When I checked the numbers he's been

calling, it's mostly modem breath.

So he's hacking.

So this morning,

I went out with a CellScope,

cruised the districts,

and I got lucky.

The CellScope identified

a suspect MIN in use.

I tracked the call to an

apartment on Brooklyn Avenue.

What makes you think

this guy's my cracker?

When I locked on to a call, and recorded it.

Check this out.

Did you see Tsutomu on

the front of "The Times"?

- You were front page too.

- Yeah, but he's a hero.

Me, I'm public enemy number one.

- Where's the justice?

- The article's a bunch of sh*t.

20 million computers at risk

of being hacked.

Like they weren't before.

It's pretty obvious

that's your guy.

Hey.

Hey.

You wanna go?

We ran Brian Merrill

and got a T. R. W.

But... no library fines,

no W-2's, no 1099's.

So, it's pretty clear, what we're

dealing with here is a legend.

After conferring with Mr. Shimomura,

we decided to proceed

under section 61-A

and draw a circle around reason to

believe suspect, fugitive Kevin Mitnick.

I think the First Amendment

is pretty significant.

You know, it has value.

I couldn't agree with you more.

I'm just not sure what, you know...

hackers breaking into the DMV...

or whatever

have to do with the First Amendment.

I think the public has a right

to know what's going on.

With everything, I mean...

who you gonna trust?

You gonna trust Big Brother?

You gonna trust big Corporations? Think

they're looking out for you?

Think of hacking

as a public service.

If I knew all hackers were

that altruistic, I would.

But there's a seriously creepy,

voyeur-type thing going on.

I mean, looking into someone

else's stuff, it's creepy.

It's usually not that way.

It's usually done in self-defense.

- You want ice cream?

- Yeah.

Yeah?

Okay, fan out.

Sounds like you admire

this guy Mulrick.

Mitnick.

No, I don't admire him.

I don't know...

I feel compassion for him.

Why's that?

Well, he must feel all alone out there.

He's being hunted.

He's being hunted

down like a rabid dog.

And, you know, being a fugitive

has to change a person.

- Hey, Brian?

- Mm-hmm?

Where are we going?

No idea.

Race you, though.

Hey!

They should have waited.

Hey.

Sorry.

It's okay.

Do you ever scan?

Scan?

Scan.

Like we were talking earlier.

I want to show you how.

It's not creepy.

Basically, you program this

like a computer.

Normally, it's

programmed to be a phone,

but with a little modification,

it becomes a scanner.

So you scan what?

You go up and down frequencies

until you find a conversation.

You learn things.

Lots of things.

Brian, I'd rather not.

Bear with me.

I think you'll like it.

If I catch you again,

I'm gonna kill you.

It was an accident

that I ran into him.

He saw me and wanted

to show me his new car.

I am not lying to you!

Don't keep lying to me!

F***ing mad!

Are you threatening me?

I'll tear

your f***ing throat out.

Or I'll just smash your head in!

Oh, this is great.

That wasn't such a good one.

No, but I'm sure there are

some really good ones.

Where you can learn a lot.

Listen, I'm gonna have

a pop quiz tomorrow,

and I have my shift

at the coffee shop,

so I was just thinking.

Maybe I should crash.

You know, my mom was a waitress.

Really?

Yeah.

She was a b*tch, too.

Kevin?

We need to talk!

What?

What'd you want from me?

- You stole from me!

- What the f*** you want?

You know what I want!

You've got my files!

What else you f***ing want from me?

- You stole from me!

- This guy stole my wallet!

- Give him his wallet.

- I don't even know him!

- He stole my f***ing wallet!

- Bullshit!

I don't have his wallet.

- Give him back his wallet.

- Get off me!

Give him back his wallet.

Where am I?

Let's just say somewhere

less rainy than Seattle.

You sound tired.

Yeah, well, I am, Alex.

I don't know.

The whole f***ing thing

just sucks.

Why the hell would

Tsutomu be there?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Yeah, you know what?

You're a lot of help.

Hey, don't get pissed off at me.

I'm on your side, you know?

I know, I know.

The wolves are knocking,

you sound like

you could give a sh*t.

What happened with that

virus code of Shimomura's?

Well, it's really, really dense.

I don't know.

I know one thing.

He cared a lot about it.

Most of the source is encrypted.

You could put it on the Net

and make it community property.

Yeah, it crossed my mind.

And you could just get the f***

out of the country.

If I go, I'm not gonna be

able to come back.

It might come to that, but I'm

gonna crack that code first.

You're running out of time,

Kevin.

I just have to know.

Look, Kevin, we both know, man,

that Shimomura did work

for the NSA, right?

So it's safe to assume

that the Contempt code

is encrypted in 56-bit.

There's, like, 37 trillion

possible combinations

of encryption in that code.

With your little computer,

it's gonna take you

about 100 years or so,

give or take a decade,

to crack that code.

I know that, Alex.

But I was thinking of using

10,000 state-funded university

computers to crack the code.

Ah.

Hey, buddy?

Good evening, Ray.

Don't see computer guys

this late during the summer.

This is late?

I'm usually here when Andy's on.

T. A. In a class next semester,

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