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On the 17th floor of an office building, the flow of words stops suddenly. Kevin Mitnick gets up from the conference room table and gazes out the window. His dark eyes are pensive. It’s a great view. To the north, the Getty Museum rises from a hilltop. On a street close to the office building is a market where Mitnick likes to buy pumpkin pie by the slice. To the east, the UCLA campus. Mitnick, once labeled the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history, has been out of prison for three years, but on Tuesday he really became free. The last of the restrictions – imposed for computer crimes against Motorola, Sun Microsystems and other companies – came off. For the first time since 1995, when FBI agents swooped down on his Raleigh, N.C., apartment, Mitnick can surf the Web. Full Story