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>>thirty+(OP)
Like the Gerber baby, the symbol people recognized didn't necessarily have that much to do with the actual person.

RIP dude.

>>h2odra+I
The....Gerber Baby? Is there a story there? She seems pretty normal and pleasant from her Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Turner_Cook

>>bshipp+A2
It doesn’t matter who the Gerber Baby really is. Society has chosen to associate the Gerber Baby with certain attributes regardless of who the person behind the photo really is, and so it is with Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick, the real person, excelled at social engineering more than any other trait and was arguably subjected to malicious prosecution. But in his later years, there’s a lot of documentation online indicating that he didn’t live up to the myth that grew around him and he was not a pleasant person [1].

People here are mostly reminiscing about Mitnick--the myth, not the man.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/uk6wgd/why_d...

>>Kina+Q5
I don't really want to say bad things about someone I respect who just died, but the fact of the matter is that Kevin (especially when he was younger—he mellowed out later) really could be menacing. Combined with the compulsiveness of his nature, that could be unpleasant. It was as if he could not stop hacking and messing with people.