Best Quote by Kevin Mitnick

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If…

— Kevin Mitnick

Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.

— Michael Demon Calce

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the…

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Steven Levy

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

— Kevin Mitnick

My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my…

— Kevin Mitnick

I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the…

— Kevin Mitnick

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

— Kevin Mitnick

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of…

— CJS Hayward

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the…

— Eric S. Raymond

Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded…

— 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