“A missing chapter from hacker Kevin Mitnick’s recent book has been published on the Internet. The chapter was originally slated to be the first chapter in Mitnick’s new book, The Art of Deception, but was not included in the published version of the book.

The publisher decided to remove the chapter shortly before releasing the book. Wiley representatives were unable to comment immediately on why the chapter was pulled.

The missing chapter was first made publicly available late Saturday in a Yahoo discussion group called “Kevin’s Story.” It has since appeared on other websites. Mitnick said he didn’t know who had posted the chapter online. E-mails to the yahoo.com address listed with the original post went unanswered.”