Hacker Quotes · Page 7

“Why do they believe that?” “Because we are hackers,” Csongor said, “and they have seen movies.”

— Neal Stephenson

You posted a status on your friend's Facebook when he wasn't looking? Please tell me how great of a hacker you are.

— Anonymous

“Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.”

— Glenn Greenwald

People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

— Tim Cook

Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

— Preet Bharara

Deterrence means cutting-edge capabilities in domains where 21st-century conflicts could erupt, including space and cyberspace.

— Lloyd Austin

“Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender.”

— D.k

We need to increase cybersecurity awareness in both the private and public sector by 10,000 percent.

— Ted Lieu

I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations…

— Kevin Mitnick

I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto.…

— Alex Stamos

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding…

— Kevin Mitnick

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a…

— Matt Blaze

To see a hacker actually hacking is not the most interesting thing visually, and it's pretty boring as an actor: a hacker…

— Finn Wolfhard

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography…

— Bruce Schneier

“What about independent actors using cyberattacks to knock out one of our power grids? Are we at that point yet? “Simple answer,”…

— Ted Koppel

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy…

— Evgeny Morozov

No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of…

— Tom O'Connor

I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've…

— Michelle Gagnon

In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our…

— Michael McCaul

“My software will take care of every security threat out there and some you may not even know about yet. No longer…

— Julie Garwood

Today is just to the beginning of a long and overdue national discussion on how to protect ourselves from modern cyber crime…

— Donald Trump

The bare bones tools for a cyber-attack are to identify a vulnerability in the system you want to gain access to or…

— Edward Snowden

There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive…

— Matt Blaze

“When flimsy cyber defense fails, Format Preserving Encryption prevails”

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

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

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

— Kevin Mitnick

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

— Bruce Schneier

“For security, Satoshi relied on uncrackable mathematical formulas rather than armed guards. But”

— Nathaniel Popper

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

— Richard A. Clarke

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

“YOUR FIREWALL IS LIKE A BUBBLE OF PROTECTIVE LIGHT AROUND YOU.”

— Lee Vickers

“Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They’d made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.”

— Jonathan Lynn

“hacking had become a government operation done by well-trained teams.”

— Donna Brazile

Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.

— Dana Boente

“When using symmetric algorithms, the sender and receiver use the same key for encryption and decryption functions.”

— Shon Harris

“Nothing is more disagreeable to the hacker than duplication of effort.”

— Anonymous

Trolls and cyber bullies have been feeling too safe in the cyber world for too long.

— Nora Fatehi