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There is no patch for stupidity.
I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.
To some people I'll always be the bad guy.
Some people think technology has the answers.
The human. Now you know all about your target
I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation.
I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.
I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over.
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.
You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.
Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.
I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.
The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.
I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.
As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
Choosing a hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember password is important!
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.
A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.
I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief.
Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.
The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.
Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.
I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.
Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.
I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.
What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities.
I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. I copied without permission.
Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.
A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.
No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.
I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.
Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.