Able Quote by Kevin Mitnick

“Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.”

Kevin Mitnick

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Able Code Cybersecurity Enough Hard Motivation Operating system Programming Source Space Type University Wanted

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