Freedom Downtime 2001 -
‘All we can do is try to publicize the facts. Not what the government is saying but the facts.’ Freedom Downtime, opening comments, 2001
He called himself Phiber Optik, and you’d have to look pretty hard to find somebody who didn’t think he was brilliant … Phiber learnt by exploring … They got him for conspiracy. ibid.
Phiber came out ten months later a hero. ibid.
Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most dangerous computer hacker. ibid.
Kevin’s name was enough to convict him regardless of the actual evidence. ibid.
It was mostly about fun and exploration. ibid.
Eight months of solitary confinement. ibid.
‘Part hype, part hysteria, part lack of understanding, part fear.’ ibid. Jennifer Granick
‘Miramax have decided to make a movie about him. The script is false. It makes him out to be a violent racist …’ ibid. supporter
‘Kevin is getting treatment that’s outside the law.’ ibid.