His violations landed him in prison for five years, for four and a half of which he was held without bail. Then he served an additional eight months. After having gotten through his sentence, he was cast as a character in the TV show ‘Alias’ in it's first season back in 2001. The show, by the way, followed the life of a woman who was a college student and sometime spy.
His legal troubles mostly behind him, there was one little problem that had to be overcome. Since Mitnick was still going through a probation period, he was legally not allowed to use computers without being told he could do so by his parole officer. The producers of the show came up with a way to escape breaking the rules--they simply used a dummy computer for filming.
