Cybersecurity Quote by John McAfee

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and…

— Richard Stallman

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

— Tim Berners-Lee

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

— Kevin Mitnick

“What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to…

— Emmanuel Goldstein

The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield…

— Steven Levy

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

— Anonymous

“IN 1984, journalist Steven Levy published Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which chronicled the scruffy subculture that had not only created the personal…

— Chris Anderson

“central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.”

— Steven Levy

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

— Mitch Kapor

“Hackers, he told one interviewer, were “just this group of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype and see what was possible. That’s…

— Franklin Foer