Charlie Brooker Quotes

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief.

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

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.

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.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

The DNC hack shows the rapid increase in sophistication of nation states (and Russia in particular) in using the Internet to project powers. We're seeing skilled malicious actors pushing the boundaries of what they can accomplish.

To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.

There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

Cyber criminals often operate through online forums, selling illicit goods and services, including tools that lower the barrier to entry for aspiring criminals and that can be used to facilitate malicious cyber activity.

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.