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Tsutomu Shimomura is a scientist and computer security expert, who gained fame when he, together with computer journalist John Markoff[?], tracked down and helped FBI arrest cracker Kevin Mitnick. Markoff and Shimomura later told the story in Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw -- By The Man Who Did It (Hyperion, January 1996).

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• Shimomura biography (http://www.takedown.com/bio/tsutomu.html)
• Web site for the book (http://www.takedown.com/)

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