Cybersecurity Quote by Kevin Mitnick

“I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.”

Kevin Mitnick

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I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.

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Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

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

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No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris…

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