Hacker Quotes · Page 4

Hacking is not a crime - It's an art of Awareness.

— Abhinav Karnawat

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

— Ted Lieu

Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated.

— Adi Shamir

Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

— Charlie Brooker

Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

— David Filo

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

— will.i.am

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

— Eric S. Raymond

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

— Kim Dotcom

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it…

— Jamie Zawinski

You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

— Darryl White

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

— Dan Schulman

“Cybersecurity is more about the leadership of people that it is about technology.”

— Mansur Hasib

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

— Amber Rudd

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

— Kevin Mitnick

Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.

— Alex Stamos

The nature and scope of security threats in the cyber era are four-dimensional compared to the early nuclear age.

— Ben Sasse

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

— John McAfee

“This cyberwar will be a continuous marathon war that will only compound and hyper-evolve in stealth, sophistication and easy entry due to…

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

Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a…

— Harper Reed

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only…

— Yochai Benkler

What you really want is for a cyberattack to be very costly and risky so it is used only rarely and only…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia.

— Hillary Clinton

“Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So…

— Keiko Nobumoto

We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems…

— Matt Blaze

“Hackers, he told one interviewer, were “just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was…

— Franklin Foer

What we're going to do with cyber-attacks - and we have already actually started - we started well before the executive order…

— Janet Napolitano

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's…

— Steve Wozniak

“If developed and implemented meaningfully, Cyber Shield Act could be a catalyst to incite responsible cybersecurity adoption and implementation throughout multiple manufacturing…

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

I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the…

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Laura Poitras

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Edward Snowden

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

— Anonymous

Cyber attacks are not going away.

— David Lidington

Attacks on our critical infrastructure are not new.

— Alejandro Mayorkas

Effective cyber-security should be considered an investment.

— Mike DeWine

We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].

— Donna Brazile

Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.

— Jon Kyl

The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion

— Mark Rutte

Being a CISO is a tough job. I have the end responsibility for the personal information of over a billion people.

— Alex Stamos