- 1812 Overture
- 2600 magazine
- 3000 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park
- Aerosmith
- Allman, Eric
- American Graffiti
- Apple Computer
- AT&T
- Biham, Eli
- BMW
- Center for Nonlinear Studies
- Clift, Neill
- Coke
- Cupertino, California
- Cyberpunk, John Markoff and Katie Hafner
- Data Encryption Standard (DES)
- DiCicco, Lenny
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- DEC's Palo Alto Research laboratory
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Farmer, Dan
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Fry's
- Gilmore, John
- Goldberg, Rube
- Grand Central Station
- Hasslacher, Brosl
- I-280
- IBM Winchester drive
- Jobs, Steve 1 2 3
- Kludge
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Los Altos Hills, California
- Lottor, Mark
- Lucas, George
- Malibu, California
- Markoff's article about Mitnick, New York Times
- McClary, Jimmy, Computer Systems Security officer, LANL
- Metallica
- Microsoft
- Morris, Robert Tappan
- Mossad
- Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles, California
- National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- Nokia
- Occam's Razor rule
- PBX
- PK Zip
- Portola Valley, California
- Posse, The
- Qualcomm
- Radio scanner
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Reid, Brian
- Rieger, Robert, Netcom chairman
- Rose, Len
- RSA Data Security, Inc.
- Saab
- Safeway
- San Andreas Fault
- San Diego, California
- Santa Cruz mountains
- Santa Monica freeway
- Sculley, John
- Seattle, Washington
- Settle, Jim, I-Net
- Shamir, Adi
- Silicon Valley, California
- Sneakers
- "Social engineering"
- Stanford, Leland
- Sun Microsystems
- Taco Bell
- Tap
- Technion
- True Names, Vernor Vinge
- Ultrix operating system
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Unix operating system
- VMS
- Winchester Mystery House
- Wired
- Woodside, California
- Zantac