Kevin Mitnick Quotes

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• The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures…
• I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first…
• My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
• We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.
• So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
• The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.
• There is no patch for stupidity.
• Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me
• Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
• Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in…
• If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could…
• Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.
• The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
• Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the…
• My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
• All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and…
• I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and…
• As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
• Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
• Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

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