Track Down
Kevin Mitnick will probably totally disagree, but the movie Track Down was pretty entertaining.Â
Its a hollywoodized version of Tsutomu Shimomura‘s book called Takedown detailing his attempts to capture computer (now reformed) cracker Kevin Mitnick. Russel Wong plays Shimomura and living legend Kevin Mitnick is played by none other than Skeet Ulrich. Skeet does a great job.
I found myself laughing out loud at some of the stuff Kevin pulled off in the movie. I have not read Shimomura’s book so I don’t know how much of the movie was acurate.  But either way they made Kevin out to be one bad, bad MF. Â
Appearently, there is some controversy on how truthful Track Down and Takedown are to the the events that actually took place with Kevin’s conviction. A lot of this is talked about in Emmanuel Goldstein’s Freedom Downtime. I guess I’ll have to check that out next.
If you’re an overall security geek like my self you’ll get a kick out of the movie. Just keep in mind that it is a work of fiction… with actors like Master P, I suppose that is not hard to do. I also noticed that Shimomura appears in a scene in which he is laughing at his character getting heckled… ironic.