You see this dorky guy up there? That’s Kevin Mitnick, the first hacker to have his photo in the FBI’s wanted poster! And the movie Takedown is all about him, how a once cyberspace celebrity/cracker pisses of the wrong guy (Shimomura) and is sent to prison for 5 long years.
His ways with people are notorious, so was his arrest! Which was followed by an uproar among supporters who hacked into The New York Times and Yahoo! Web sites, demanding that Mitnick be freed! There were even claims that he was treated unfairly by the US government to make an example out of him for all those that wanted to tread on his footsteps. The movie here gives you an idea about his mind set during that time and what happens when a phreaker turns bad 
Good watch!
Acts by Kevin Mitnick
- Using the Los Angeles bus transfer system to get free rides
- Evading the FBI
- Hacking into DEC system(s) to view VMS source code (DEC reportedly spent $160,000 in cleanup costs)
- Gaining full admin privileges to an IBM minicomputer at the Computer Learning Center in LA in order to win a bet
- Hacking Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Siemens systems
- Wiretapped FBI agents according to John Markoff,although denied by Kevin Mitnick.
On a further note, if you want to get a crash course on how you can use “social engineering” with your hacking skills hit his book The Art of Deception. Because after all human stupidity is the greatest flaw 
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About the ‘Acts by Kevin Mitnick’ – those are the stuff we know about – only he knows what all he have done that the public don’t know about
Btw, he also wrote another book – Art of Intrusion
I’ve read both the books.. plus a so-called banned chapter by Kevin.
If you belive Kevin, he’s just a media-hyped victim of American paranoia. Kevin was just an average phreak. Not your super-whiz ‘hacker’. He just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Pissed off girlfriend, show-off sysadmin who wanted to nail someone, a publicity hungry journalist who wanted to frame story around cyberspace…
… poor Kevin!