Kevin Mitnick Quotes

New Security Loopholes Are Constantly Popping Up Because Of Wireless Networking. The Cat-and-mouse Game Between Hackers And System Administrators Is Still In Full Swing.

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 And Dec Didn't Stop Using Vms.

Steve Wozniak And Steve Jobs Founded Apple Inc, Which Set The Computing World On Its Ear With The Macintosh In 1984.

No Way, No How Did I Break Into Norad. That's A Complete Myth. And I Never Attempted To Access Anything Considered To Be Classified Government Systems.

We Have Problems With Our Physical Security, Operational Security Through To Management.

Back In My Day, I Would Probe By Hand. Now You Can Get Commercial Software That Does The Job For You.

I Did Get A Huge Endorphin Rush When I Was Able To Crack A System Because It Was Like A Video Game.

I Trust Online Banking. You Know Why? Because If Somebody Hacks Into My Account And Defrauds My Credit Card Company, Or My Online Bank Account, Guess Who Takes The Loss? The Bank, Not Me.

My Argument Is Not That I Shouldn't Have Been Punished, But That The Punishment Didn't Fit The Crime.

So What I Was Essentially Doing Was, I Compromised The Confidentiality Of Their Proprietary Software To Advance My Agenda Of Becoming The Best At Breaking Through The Lock.

Both Social Engineering And Technical Attacks Played A Big Part In What I Was Able To Do. It Was A Hybrid. I Used Social Engineering When It Was Appropriate, And Exploited Technical Vulnerabilities When It Was Appropriate.

It Doesn't Work The Same Way Everywhere. The Americans Are The Most Gullible, Because They Don't Like To Deny Co-workers' Requests. People In The Former Soviet Bloc Countries Are Less Trusting, Perhaps Because Of Their Previous Experiences With Their Countries' Secret Services.