Brian's Brain

It's sad how uneducated our government and legal system can be when it comes to technology. Their fear of the subject causes them to overreact in ways my high-school computer science teacher (guilty of the same thing) could ever dream of.

I'm excited and happy that the probationary state for Kevin Mitnick is over and he can finally use the internet again. How can our country expect to make progress when the most brilliant minds are locked away in prison and, once they get out, are forbidden from using their talents? Fortunately, a federal court has since ruled that it's too severe of a punishment to prevent someone from using the internet anymore (claiming that being without it is as bad as being without a phone). Still, there are those in the federal court systems that are now terrified that Mitnick is back. Get a life -- the guy did very little wrong in the first place. The federal government attempted to make an example of him and ended up making him a martyr. They should have chosen someone truly guilty of what they were being prosecuted for.

Welcome back to the real world Kevin.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I found his girlfriends blog somewhat intriguing, and it contains lots of excellent links of this topic.