Confidence Quote by Harper Reed

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

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Kevin Mitnick

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

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and…

— John Perkins

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a…

— Steve Wozniak

I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was…

— Kevin Mitnick

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true…

— David Axelrod

I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations…

— Valerie Plame

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

— Kevin Mitnick

I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Anonymous

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

— Kevin Mitnick