Meaning Of Kevin

Kevin Durant Explains Meaning Behind Each of His 'Business Tattoos'

Mayberry reports that Durant was hesistant to share his ink with the world. Mayberry wrote “Durant confirmed the deliberate placement of his designs following a practice in early May when the Thunder was in a Western Conference semifinals series with Memphis.”

He also explains what each one of Durant’s tattoos mean:

Inscribed at the bottom of the right side of his stomach, Durant has “Walk by faith not by sight,” coming from 2 Corinthians 5:7. Immediately above that is a cross. Directly above the cross is another scripture, this one adopted from Proverbs 15:33, which reads, “The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor.”

On the left side of his stomach, Durant has an image of a house, which he once told me was the home he grew up in. In front of the house is a boy wearing a No. 35 jersey dribbling a basketball. And above his belly button, Durant, a suburban Washington, D.C. native, has the Washington Nationals’ squiggly red “W’” insignia.

Durant supposedly had the names “Barbara” and “Wanda” tattooed on his chest when he entered the league and then added most of the ink in the last few months. Now that he’s running out of space on his chest, one has to wonder if he’ll start adding some on the rest of his body. After all, he really has nothing to hide anymore.

I can’t see why people don’t get it. Yes, Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose are by all accounts, humble, clean cut young men. That being said, they are also selling that image to you. Why do people get mad when I point this out? Like when people get angry at me for saying one of the reason Derrick Rose is the new media darling is because he doesn’t talk that much. They say he’s humble. He may be but he’s mostly just quiet and he’s selling that image.

Kevin Mitnick's story will give new meaning to your understanding ...

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, By Kevin Mitnick

Book Review by Steve Hunt July 2011

Kevin Mitnick taught me how to play blackjack in Las Vegas. He sat next to me at the Golden Nugget and coached me while I played. I won several times and walked away $400 ahead. He lost about that much. He just didn’t know when to quit. As I read his memoir, I would sometimes shout out loud at the pages. “Kevin, what are you DOing?! It’s time to quit!”

Ghost in the Wires: My adventures as the world’s most wanted hacker is the complete story from Kevin’s point of view about his life of hacking and running from the law.

In the book, Kevin speaks with disarming frankness about his parents, his home life, his girlfriends and friends. He makes no excuses – leaving the reader free to assume root causes of his’ behavior. Maybe it was the parents’ messy divorce, Kevin’s strained relationship with his father, the abuse he suffered from Mom’s boyfriends, betrayal by his friends. However, one thing shows Kevin’s character more than any other. He does not blame anyone. He takes full responsibility for his actions and obviously sees things from others’ points of view.

That clarity and ability to connect with people is doubtless one of the reasons he was so successful deceiving people using a technique known as social engineering. Law enforcement and the press absurdly painted him as a monster with magical, diabolical skills. But ultimately it was his humanity that allowed him to connect to people and get what he wanted. He deceived people, to be sure. It was his stock and trade as a hacker, but also yielded many insights he shared with us in his best-selling book The Art of Deception.

When I met Kevin Mitnick for the first time, he struck me as nervous, humble and self-deprecating. He had just been released from prison and was still under very tight probation in Las Vegas. I was hosting a conference on behalf of my employer, Giga Information Group. Kevin was our keynote speaker – his first speech in public ever. As I got to know him, I saw he was very bright, funny and forever playful.

A year or two later, I arrived in Athens Greece to speak at a conference where Kevin was the keynote speaker. I checked into my hotel that evening, exhausted from a full day of traveling, and fell right to sleep. At about 2 am my room phone rang. I grabbed it and mumble, “hullo?” The voice at the other end said “This is the front desk. There is a problem with your credit card. You need to come down right now and see the manager.” I said, “It’s the middle of the night! I’ll come down in the morning.” The voice said very firmly, “Sir, you must come right now and re-process your card. The hotel is very full and if you cannot pay we have to make the room available for others waiting in line.” “That’s outrageous!” I said, now finally waking up and getting mad. Softening a bit, the voice said, “I understand sir, perhaps you could just read your card number over the phone.” I grunted, grabbed my wallet and started reading the number, “3715 4118 6…KEVIN!!!!!” That’s when he broke character and busted out giggling.

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