Kevin Mitnick Quotes

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

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.

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

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.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

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

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

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

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.

Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.

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

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.

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.

If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don't involve anybody else. The greater the circle of people that know what you're doing, the higher the risk.

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.

Privacy violations should be considered criminal offences.

We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.

Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.

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.