Calling Kevin Mitnick

During Kevin Mitnick's talk, he demonstrated how to unblock CallerID. He announced his phone number, put his iPhone on the big screen, and asked the audience to call him with a blocked number. Being a hacker conference, not many were willing to risk disclosing their number on the big screen to the 800+ people watching. After a long 20 seconds one guy called and sure enough his number showed up.

After some really quick mental risk assessment, I decided to call too, since my number is also blocked and I was curious. Sure enough, my number also showed up on the big screen. (I quickly hung up hoping to prevent anyone from writing it down. No prank calls yet, *knock on wood*.) I added Kevin Mitnick to my phone's contacts list and it's really weird seeing his name in my call history.

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