Computer security Quote by Alexandra Elbakyan

Our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data [on Russian hacking]. There…

— Barack Obama

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

— Mikko Hypponen

I think that whether I can be a Russian spy is being investigated by U.S. government since they learned about Sci-Hub, because that is…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

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

— Dmitri Alperovitch

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make…

— Kevin Mitnick

Lots of Americans, they do think that yes, Russian hackers are everywhere. Russian hackers are in every fridge, Russian hackers are in every iron…

— Dmitry Peskov

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

— Kevin Mitnick

You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause

— John le Carré

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and…

— Will Hurd

Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are…

— Valerie Plame

“Similarly, to be a hacker you have to get a basic thrill from solving problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your intelligence. If you…

— Eric S. Raymond

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

— Edward Snowden