RALEIGH,  N.C.  (AP)  -- A man accused of cracking security on some of
   the nation's most protected computers was held without bond Friday and
   his  access  to  the  key  tool of cybertheft -- phones -- was sharply
   limited.

   Kevin  D.  Mitnick,  charged Wednesday with computer fraud and illegal
   use of a telephone access device, may speak by phone with his lawyers,
   his  mother  and his grandmother -- but marshals or jailers must place
   any calls, said U.S. Magistrate Wallace W. Dixon.

   ``Those phone calls will be monitored,'' Dixon added.

   Assistant U.S. Attorney John S. Bowler said afterward the public needs
   protection.  All  of Mitnick's alleged crimes ``involved use or access
   to telephones,'' he said.

   Prosecutors say the man described as the nation's most-wanted computer
   infiltrator   used   commandeered  cellular  phone  circuits  to  raid
   corporate  computer  systems  and steal information worth more than $1
   million, including at least 20,000 credit card numbers.

   Six  years  ago, Mitnick was sentenced to a year in prison after being
   convicted  of  infiltrating  MCI telephone computers and of causing $4
   million damage to Digital Equipment Corp.

   On Friday, the bespectacled, 31-year-old Mitnick, in a black sweatsuit
   and leg irons with his curly hair in a ponytail, listened intently but
   said little.

   ``Yes,  your  honor,'' he replied when asked to confirm that he wanted
   to  waive bond consideration and a probable cause hearing. No plea was
   entered.

   He faces up to 35 years in prison and $500,000 in fines if convicted.

   Authorities  released  a three-page breakdown of property seized >from
   the   Raleigh   apartment  where  Mitnick  was  arrested  following  a
   nationwide search by law enforcement and computer security officials.

   Besides an array of technical equipment and manuals, cables and plugs,
   the  seized  items  included a driver's license under an alias the FBI
   said  Mitnick  used.  Also found: the book ``The 100 Best Companies to
   Work for in America'' and 44 job application letters.

   Investigators  again  credited  the  help  of  Tsutumo  Shimomura, who
   devoted  much of his time since Christmas to tracking the intruder who
   gained access to his personal computer that day.

   ``He  was  not  very  difficult  to  catch,''  Shimomura  told  a news
   conference. ``The same tools he used to snip networks are the tools we
   used to monitor him and catch him.''

   The  case showed that computer networks aren't as secure as the public
   may  believe, he said, adding that encryption and other measures would
   help.

   Asked  why  Mitnick  allegedly  broke  into  his home computer system,
   Shimomura said: ``My guess is he was after particular tools he thought
   I might have ... to break into other systems.''