Despite the blurb on boingboing.net, Mitnick is not the first to have an application for renewal of a ham ticket denied. Herb Schoenbohm, ex-KV4FZ, had his application for renewal denied in 1992 after being convicted of felony telephone toll fraud. A Google search on KV4FZ will bring up several links with the information on the case; a good overview is at http://www2.arrl.org/w1aw/1998-arlb084.html .