Kevin Mitnick Quotes

I don’t think we can pass a law that fixes stupid.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

People are not stupid.

Second issue is the rapidly accelerating increase in the number of vulnerabilities that get discovered every day. And, equally importantly, is the shortening of time between the discovery of the vulnerability and the release of an exploit.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

You can't legislate against stupidity.

Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Blessed are the dumbfucks.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.