Hacker Quotes · Page 6

I was interested in computer programming as a kid. In fact, during my college days, I used to be a hacker.

— Vatsal Sheth

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

— Bruce Schneier

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

— Walter O'Brien

“He hacked the FBI mainframe as a teenager and once sent an email from a former president's account, just because he could.”

— Cat Patrick

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

— Mitch Kapor

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go.

— Michael Demon Calce

Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

— Kevin Mitnick

The risk of operating from home offices in terms of cyber attacks is exponentially greater.

— Brian Deese

Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone…

— Kevin Mitnick

“The Chiss have always stored sensitive data in this fashion. It is safe secure and permanent. We have lost too much data…

— Shane Dix

Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other…

— Anonymous

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success…

— Kevin Mitnick

You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves…

— Dmitri Alperovitch

Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house…

— John Waters

The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I've had with hackers and from people in tech who are…

— Sam Esmail

Activists from the Middle East to Asia to the former Soviet states have all been telling me that they suffer from increasingly…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

In a little while, I'd like to address one of the most important aspects of America's national security, and that's cyber security.…

— Donald Trump

While we should not hesitate to deploy encryption to protect ourselves from cybercriminals, this should not be done in a way that…

— William Barr

Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,…

— Edward Snowden

I've always been a singer in my mind. Fronting a band is something I've never done because I've always done other things.…

— Josh Klinghoffer

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even…

— Kevin Mitnick

When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and…

— Edward Snowden

Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with…

— John T. Chambers

I will also ask my secretary of defense and joint chiefs to present recommendations for strengthening and augmenting our cyber command. As…

— Donald Trump

“It’s more important to install your antivirus software correctly than quickly”

— Peter H. Gregory

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

— Jamie Zawinski

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

— Noah Feldman

The hacker needs to be real about himself before I SPAZ on the bitchhh

— Anonymous

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure…

— Edward Snowden

“We remain largely oblivious to the potential catastrophe of a well-targeted cyberattack.”

— Ted Koppel

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

— Philip Hammond

“One of the best things about hacking is the buzz you get when you find your way into some place you're not…

— Thalia Kalkipsakis

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

— Eric S. Raymond

Government never adapts quickly to new challenges, but our slow-footedness on cyber is unparalleled.

— Ben Sasse

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

— Barton Gellman

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

— Kevin Mitnick

The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.

— Jared Cohen

We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.

— Reince Priebus

“We have all been hacked, the only question is whether you know it or you don’t’.”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

We need to do whatever we can to defend ourselves against hacking.

— Soren Skou