Hacker Quotes · Page 7

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

— Amber Rudd

Most devices have been hacked in some way and are part of - part of a botnet network that can come after…

— Dan Schulman

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

— Tim Cook

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

— Kevin Mitnick

I do know about stories where hackers that left Russia or Ukraine for Europe or the United States were unexpectedly arrested.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

“The Cyber Shield Act could serve as a secure conduit to facilitate update and patch delivery”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

I cannot conceive of how more than 1% of us could possibly survive a cyberwar.

— John McAfee

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

— Heather Brooke

“In early March 2015 the Government Accountability Office issued a report warning that the air traffic control system is vulnerable to cyberattack.”

— Ted Koppel

There's no doubt now that Russia has used cyber attacks against all kinds of organizations in America, and I am deeply concerned…

— Hillary Clinton

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and…

— Adam McKay

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the…

— John W. Thompson

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at…

— Anonymous

“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There…

— Henry Mosquera

“SCADA systems were, for the most part, designed and installed before the notion of cyberattacks had even occurred to anyone. The Internet…

— Ted Koppel

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry…

— Tim Berners-Lee

We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep…

— Eric S. Raymond

A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it,…

— Edward Snowden

[Experts in cybersecurity] will also establish a training program for all government employees to make certain that they understand what defenses are…

— Donald Trump

In the '80s, society created a caricature of what a hacker or a programmer looked like: a guy wearing a hoodie, drinking…

— Reshma Saujani

When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other…

— Kevin Mitnick

One of my first directives, after taking office, will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff and all relevant federal departments to…

— Donald Trump

We've already seen shifts happening in some of the big companies - Google, Apple - that now understand how vulnerable their customer…

— Laura Poitras

“It might seem that security should gradually improve over time as security problems are discovered and corrected, but unfortunately this does not…

— Evi Nemeth

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

— Lesley Stahl

It is clear to me that creating a pathway for decryption only for good guys is technologically stupid. You just can't do…

— Ted Lieu

“in keeping with the Hacker Ethic, no artificial boundaries were maintained.”

— Steven Levy

“Those who seek to make great fortune without making great effort will soon commit a great crime.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

— Kevin Mitnick

In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

— Jonathan Lynn

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

— John McAfee

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'

— Heather Brooke

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat,

— Robert Mueller

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

— James Comey

Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.

— Michael Demon Calce

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security

— Fred Durst

“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Just consider some of these recent hacks, JPMorgan Chase, massive bank, had 73 million e-mails stolen.

— Donald Trump

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

— Kevin Mitnick