My Actions Constituted Pure Hacking That Resulted

The Methods That Will Most Effectively Minimize The Ability Of Intruders To Compromise Information Security Are Comprehensive User Training And Education. Enacting Policies And Procedures Simply Won't Suffice. Even With Oversight The Policies And Procedures May Not Be Effective: My Access To Motorola, Nokia, Att, Sun Depended Upon The Willingness Of People To Bypass Policies And Procedures That Were In Place For Years Before I Compromised Them Successfully.

I Think It Goes Back To My High School Days. In Computer Class, The First Assignment Was To Write A Program To Print The First 100 Fibonacci Numbers. Instead, I Wrote A Program That Would Steal Passwords Of Students. My Teacher Gave Me An A.

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.

Any Type Of Operating System That I Wanted To Be Able To Hack, I Basically Compromised The Source Code, Copied It Over To The University Because I Didn't Have Enough Space On My 200 Megabyte Hard Drive.

The Key To Social Engineering Is Influencing A Person To Do Something That Allows The Hacker To Gain Access To Information Or Your Network.