Hacker Quotes

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

— Kevin Mitnick

I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.

— Kevin Mitnick

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

— Kevin Mitnick

“Wannacry is the Stuxnet of Ransomware”

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

Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously by everyone.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

— Jennifer Wyatt

“Hacks didn't destroy, they just...creatively amended.”

— Rachel Caine

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

— Julian Assange

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

— Adi Shamir

“There is nothing more frustrating to a hacker than to see an extension to a system and not be able to keep…

— Steven Levy

Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

— Evgeny Morozov

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

— Kevin Mitnick

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

— Larry Wall

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

— Anonymous

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

— Dean Stockwell

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack,

— Leon Panetta

We are at war, if you will, in the cyber domain now, constantly battling countries, such as Russia or China, who are…

— Mark Esper

Weaken American encryption and consumers - both good and bad actors - will simply seek their technology from companies based abroad. Weaker…

— Ted Lieu

With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies…

— Tim Cook

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the…

— Eric S. Raymond

“Would-be hackers, operating on what is sometimes referred to as the “Sneakernet,” can introduce their malware, their viral programs, by way of…

— Ted Koppel

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin…

— Edward Snowden

More organizations than ever are conducting business online. An expanding digital footprint and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks have created a growing urgency…

— Ken Xie

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not…

— Whitfield Diffie

First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers.…

— Harper Reed

To enhance the defense of the other agencies of government, including our law enforcement agency - it's so important. They're doing such…

— Donald Trump

“The fifth member of the team preferred to work at home. Ahmed was the hacker, the forger, the creator of all illusions,…

— John Grisham

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

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Reshma Saujani

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

— Donald Trump

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

“CYBERPOWER is now a fundamental fact of global life. In political, economic, and military affairs, information and information technology provide and support…

— Franklin D. Kramer

“Banks have been a frequent target for hackers in recent years, with the vast majority of attacks motivated by financial theft. But…

— Anonymous

“We have already said that many devices will have no need to be on the Internet. But, perhaps certain devices won’t be…

— Peter Lucas

“You can easily find out her real name and address with your hacker skills, and I’ll just pop out to Cleveland or…

— Debra Dunbar

The U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of…

— Misha Glenny

“The first duty of the command and control system is to survive,” Baran argued, proposing a distributed network with hundreds or thousands…

— Eric Schlosser

“Chris discovered malware on Raider, the most important server in the whole system. Raider was the server that all the other servers…

— Donna Brazile

“Ways to Make use of a Router This article demonstrates how to use a router securely as well as uses some tips…

— Somvabona