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The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess. (Kevin Mitnick)
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities. View quote
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If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection. View quote
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My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. View quote
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We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management. View quote
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Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. View quote
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But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people. View quote
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I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done. View quote
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It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. View quote
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So what you have to do is think about authenticating credit card transactions more than thinking about obfuscating the credit card number. View quote
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Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain the people who use, administer and operate computer systems. (Kevin Mitnick)
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls. View quote
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I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. View quote
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Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. View quote
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I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. View quote
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I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies. View quote
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If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don't involve anybody else. The greater the circle of people that know what you're doing, the higher the risk. View quote
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When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no. View quote
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Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element. View quote
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I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree. View quote
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No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS. (Kevin Mitnick)
I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage. View quote
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I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. View quote
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My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job. View quote
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I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast. View quote
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