It’s Actually A Smarter Crime Because Imagine

I Can Go Into Linkedin And Search For Network Engineers And Come Up With A List Of Great Spear-phishing Targets Because They Usually Have Administrator Rights Over The Network. Then I Go Onto Twitter Or Facebook And Trick Them Into Doing Something, And I Have Privileged Access.

My Actions Constituted Pure Hacking That Resulted In Relatively Trivial Expenses For The Companies Involved, Despite The Government's False Claims.

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

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.

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 I Could Locate Security Bugs, I Could Become Better At Hacking Into Their Systems. It Was All Towards Becoming A Better Hacker.