Question: John Markoff, is a journalist best known for his work at "The New York Times", and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of which American computer security consultant, author and hacker, best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and later five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes?
Context: Elias Ladopoulos is a technologist and investor from New York City.  Under the pseudonym Acid Phreak, he was a founder of the "Masters of Deception" (MOD) hacker group along with Phiber Optik (Mark Abene) and Scorpion (Paul Stira).  Referred to as The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace in a 1995 non-fiction book, MOD was at the forefront of exploiting telephone systems to hack into the private networks of major corporations.  In his later career, Ladopoulos developed new techniques for electronic trading and computerized projections of stocks and shares performance, as well as working as a security consultant for the defense department.  He is currently CEO of Supermassive Corp, which is a hacker-based incubation studio for technology start-ups. Milton Smith is an American computer security application developer, researcher, and writer.  Smith is best known for his role leading Java platform security at Oracle during a period of high-profile security incidents in the fall of 2012.  Due to the climate around Java security, in 2013 Smith was invited to present by Black Hat leadership in a closed session under Non-Disclosure Agreement to top industry leaders.  In the same year Smith established the first ever full security track at a software developers conference, JavaOne, Oracle's premier conference for Java software developers in San Francisco, California(USA). Nasir Memon is a computer scientist based in Brooklyn, New York.  Memon is a professor and chair of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering computer science and engineering department and affiliate faculty at the computer science department in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.  He is also the Department Head of NYU Tandon Online, the online learning unit of the school.  He introduced cyber security studies to New York University Tandon School of Engineering, making it one of the first schools to implement the program at the undergraduate level.  Memon holds twelve patents in image compression and security.  He is the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy (CRISSP) and CRISSP Abu Dhabi.  In 2002, Memon founded Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), an annual conference where tens of thousands of students compete in events and learn skills in cyber security Memon is also co-founder of Digital Assembly, a software company that develops digital forensics and data recovery and Vivic, a company that produces malware detection software.  Memon has published over 250 articles in journals and conferences and has contributed to articles regarding cyber security in magazines such as "Crain’s New York Business", "Fortune", and "USA Today".  His research has been featured in "NBC Nightly News", "The New York Times", "MIT Review", "Wired.Com", and "New Science Magazine". Electron was the computer handle of Richard Jones, a member of an underground hacker community called The Realm.  Jones, born in June 1969, was one of three members of the group arrested in simultaneous raids by the Australian Federal Police in Melbourne, Australia, on 2 April 1990.  All three — Nahshon Even-Chaim (also known as "Phoenix"), "Electron" and "Nom" (real name David John Woodcock) — were convicted of a range of computer crimes involving the intrusion into US defense and government computer systems and the theft of an online computer security newsletter in the late 1980s and early 1990. Frank William Abagnale Jr. ( ; born April 27, 1948) is an American security consultant known for his history as a former confidence trickster, check forger, and impostor between the ages of 15 and 21.  He became one of the most famous impostors ever, claiming to have assumed no fewer than eight identities, including an airline pilot, a physician, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons agent, and a lawyer.  He escaped from police custody twice (once from a taxiing airliner and once from a U.S. federal penitentiary), before he was 21 years old.  He served less than five years in prison before starting to work for the federal government.  He is currently a consultant and lecturer for the FBI academy and field offices.  He also runs Abagnale & Associates, a financial fraud consultancy company. Patrick Drew McDaniel is an American computer scientist.  He is a William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Director of the Institute for Networking and Security Research at the Pennsylvania State University.  He has made several contributions in the areas of computer security, operating systems, and computer networks.  McDaniel is best known for his work in mobile security as well as in electronic voting security, digital piracy prevention, and cellular networks.  In recognition of his contributions and service to the scientific community, he was named IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow.  Prior to joining Penn State in 2004, he was a senior research staff member at AT&T Labs.  He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, under the supervision of Atul Prakash. Katie Moussouris is an American computer security researcher and writer who is best known for her ongoing work advocating responsible security research.  She created the bug bounty program at Microsoft.  Formerly the Chief Policy Officer at HackerOne, a vulnerability disclosure company based in San Francisco, California, she is the founder and CEO of Luta Security .  Moussouris was directly involved in creating the Department of Defense's first bug bounty program for hackers.  In 2014, SC Magazine named Moussouris to its Women in IT Security list.  She was also named as one of "10 Women in Information Security That Everyone Should Know," and the "One To Watch" among the 2011 Women of Influence awards. Peter Claus Gutmann is a computer scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.  He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Auckland.  His Ph.D. thesis and a book based on the thesis were about a cryptographic security architecture.  He is interested in computer security issues, including security architecture, security usability (or more precisely the lack thereof), and hardware security, he has discovered assorted flaws in publicly released cryptosystems and protocols.  He is the developer of the cryptlib open source software security library and contributed to PGP version 2.  In 1994 he developed the Secure FileSystem (SFS).  He is also known for his analysis of data deletion on electronic memory media, magnetic and otherwise, and devised the Gutmann method for erasing data from a hard drive more or less securely.  Having lived in New Zealand for some time, he has written on such subjects as wetas, which are peculiar to New Zealand, and the Auckland power crisis of 1998, during which the electrical power system failed completely in the central city for five weeks.  See, for instance, "Auckland: Your Y2K beta test site" on Gutmann's Homepage.  He has also written on his career as an "arms courier" for New Zealand, detailing the difficulty faced in complying with customs control regulations with respect to cryptographic products, which were once classed as "munitions" by various jurisdictions including the United States. John Markoff (born October 29, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work at "The New York Times", and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick. Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1963) is an American computer security consultant, author and hacker, best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and later five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.
Answer: Kevin Mitnick