Talk:Kevin Mitnick

He's gone, Jim.
[] Crazysane (T/C\D) 00:58, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

dead
apparently he died of cancer or something 🤷‍♂️ 2A00:23EE:1478:219E:3051:7545:2AE4:DCE2 (talk) 00:59, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * The memorial page that is being shared: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668 Skyfaller (talk) 01:11, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * The problem is no one's confirming it. Just a memorial page isn't much to go on. No one on Twitter, Reddit, or Hacker News is stepping up to say specifically "I know all about this and know independently of this memorial page that Kevin is dead". Entities like 2600 or Jason Scott are just retweeting the memorial. Is Kevin Mitnick dead? Probably yes. But given that he was famous in particular for social engineering, there's a bit of niggling doubt there about him or someone else up to shenanigans... --Gwern (contribs) 01:09 20 July 2023 (GMT)
 * A member of the hacking community, MG, claims on Twitter to have independently confirmed this but as of now has provided no additional sources. Also Security Week has reported it, citing "SecurityWeek sources" in addition to the memorial page.  Replysixty (talk) 01:27, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Can someone protect the page to stop the back-and-forth unsourced edit-warring? Nicolas09F9 (talk) 01:32, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Yet another source, not to mention the Obituary is definitely legit. --Neøn (talk) 01:42, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * And now the Sun as well. I think this should be enough. Replysixty (talk) 01:46, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I guess there's no way to block the reverts that will predictably follow.. -- Neøn (talk) 01:49, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * After a discussion with User:GeneralNotability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:GeneralNotability#Kevin_Mitnick) I've restored what I believe was the best version to come out of this back-and-forth editing, featuring the obituary and the SecurityWeek article. At this point, the back-and-forth has mostly slowed, so hopefully we can leave it at this... demize  (t · c) 02:11, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Confirmed by multiple sources, including New York Times. See: Lexlex (talk) 20:29, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 July 2023 (2)
He died on the 16th of july not the 19th of july ComuterK1d (talk) 02:08, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. EggRoll97 (talk) 04:00, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 July 2023 (3)
Please change in "Death" July 21,2023 to July 20, 2023 Fischdix (talk) 14:13, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Please disregard changes, correct date is July 16, 2023. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668 Fischdix (talk) 14:16, 20 July 2023 (UTC)