Hacker Quotes · Page 5

While encryption protects against cyberattacks, deploying it in warrant-proof form jeopardizes public safety more generally.

— William Barr

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

— Mikko Hypponen

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

— Michael Mullen

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

— John McAfee

Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.

— Dan Lipinski

I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my…

— DeRay Mckesson

“In their view, hacking would be better served by using the best system possible.”

— Steven Levy

Cyber attacks rain down on us from many places. You have to make your systems secure and safe and teach your people…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

“Women, even today, are considered grossly unpredictable,” one PDP-6 hacker noted, almost two decades later. “How can a hacker tolerate such an…

— Anonymous

“I'm getting a daily email from Microsoft which I have been ignoring that states a hacker is trying to access my account.…

— Steven Magee

Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for…

— Edward Snowden

Every day, we learn of more cyber attacks in our nation and around the world. In the United States, these attacks have…

— Dan Lipinski

“Cyber domains are particularly complex. Here, threat actors are unidentifiable and technology and disinformation evolve at warp speed.”

— Roger Spitz

I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these…

— Edward Snowden

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

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

— Evi Nemeth

It's always been government's role to protect the security of the nation. And cyber-attacks is a security issue, from our perspective. And…

— Janet Napolitano

I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far…

— Matt Blaze

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a…

— Kevin Mitnick

“The more we plug our devices and our lives into the global information grid—whether via mobile phones, social networks, elevators, or self-driving…

— Marc Goodman

When it comes to the cyberwarfare piece, we're going to have to deal with it.

— John Kasich

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone…

— Kevin Mitnick

Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

— Kevin Mitnick

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

— Steve Wozniak

Guys, I'm Not a Hacker. I Was Asked If I Wanted To Be An Admin And I Said Yes, So PleaseStop Saying…

— Anonymous

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

— Edward Snowden

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back…

— Anonymous

To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.

— Valerie Plame

I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

— Catherine Jinks

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much…

— Josh Klinghoffer

I'd be the first to say that cybersecurity is a difficult and challenging matter.

— Richard Cordray

I think we could very easily suffer a seriously catastrophic cyber event.

— John F. Kelly

The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of…

— David E. Sanger

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

— John Badham

I get the worst of both worlds. I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

— Justin Long

“it took on average 279 days before companies that had been breached came to realize it or were told by someone else. The”

— Ted Koppel