Heather Brooke Quotes

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

Everyone is a proponent of strong encryption.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.

I have not looked at any of the 'Pretender' Web sites. I'm scared of the Internet.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.

The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

We all need to decide what makes it safe and secure on the Internet. It can't be anybody else's decision. We have to have a voice.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

The greatest interest at stake is not that of the copyright holders or the database companies, rather it is the interest a free and open society has in ensuring that everyone can learn the facts, regardless of their economic background. We should regard our nation’s involvement in the knowledge of its citizens … as the highest and most precious intellectual property we can ever protect.

This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.

The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals.

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

We think the government should be pushing for more encryption. That it's a great thing. You know, it's like the sun and the air and the water.