Hacker Quotes · Page 8

If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

— Chris Christie

Cyber will be part of any future conflict -- whether it's a nation state or terrorism,

— Cofer Black

Cybersecurity is not only a question of developing defensive technologies but offensive technologies, as well.

— Donald Trump

Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

— Jack Keane

“Your organization’s illusion based security theater will lose to the reality of cyber-attack any day of the week.”

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

The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.

— Vinton Cerf

We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.

— Brianna Wu

Cybersecurity continues to be a significant threat to public and private enterprises, governments and individuals.

— Phil Scott

If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don't involve anybody else. The greater the…

— Kevin Mitnick

Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.

— George Tenet

The threat from cyber criminals and nation states continues to grow. So we need to forge closer partnerships with industry, academia and…

— David Lidington

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have…

— Whitfield Diffie

I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual…

— Laura Poitras

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as…

— Barton Gellman

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or…

— Linus Torvalds

Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are…

— Charlie Kaufman

If nothing else, the cyber attacks that occurred during the 2016 presidential election have laid bare the very real vulnerabilities that exist…

— Mike Quigley

“Cyberwar, in fact, is part of the evolution of conventional warfare, which itself is linked to broader social and political change. It…

— Anonymous

What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this…

— Edward Snowden

A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on;…

— Misha Glenny

With original cryptography, you are just trying to secure one narrow thing - say, communications - and you are trying to secure…

— Nick Szabo

I'm a little bit wary of people. It freaked me out when a fan connected with me on social media, then had…

— Belinda Carlisle

As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.

— James G. Stavridis

Social engineering is the clever manipulation and control of ideas in a sequenced pattern that doesn't change.

— Jeremy Limn

“Why should I apologize for being a HACKER? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?”

— Harsh Mohan

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

— Richard Stallman

We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is - it is a huge problem.

— Donald Trump

“If someone was able to hack into an RTO or ISO and deliberately overload the lines, the impact would be swift and…

— Ted Koppel

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

— Kevin Mitnick

Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.

— Dan Lipinski

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

— Kevin Mitnick

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

— Seth Gordon

Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.

— Ryan Holiday

“Hackers in Hollywood movies are phenomenal; all they need to do is: "c:\> hack into fbi”

— Various

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

— Kevin Mitnick

There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don't know they have been hacked.

— John T. Chambers

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

— Tim Berners-Lee