Kevin Mitnick Quotes

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

The word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent.

There are good leaks and bad leaks.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Social Engineering - the art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.

I can try to wheedle information out of people," Holly offered. "For which I'll need a lower-cut top.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.