Kevin Mitnick Quotes

You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.

Too many of us are vulnerable, and I look forward to working with AARP to advise people about the safest ways to conduct their financial transactions and manage social media.

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.

I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of individuals around the globe. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its user’s most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identify thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

I guard my privacy zealously.

When you check into a hotel, they don't need to know your name and address; they just need to know that the bill will be paid. People should ask questions.

Introducing ID cards isn't a matter of great national security importance.