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New Google VP Busted Kevin Mitnick Back in the Day

Kevin Poulsen writes on 27B Stroke 6:

Google's new vice president and general counsel is no stranger to search. As a federal prosecutor in 1995, he oversaw the manhunt that tracked down then-fugitive hacker Kevin Mitnick.

Kent Walker has served as deputy general counsel of eBay, and associate general counsel at Netscape, among other Silicon Valley posts.

But if you set the way-back machine for 1995, you'll find him an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco specializing in cybercrime. He issued the subpoenas that helped federal agents, and Tsutomu Shimomura, trail Mitnick to his North Carolina hideout.

posted by Fergie @ 12/11/2006 04:15:00 PM