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" I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree. "

Kevin Mitnick

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" The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I get a call from my bank, and the first thing they ask is, 'Mr. Mitnick, may I get your account number?' And I'll say, 'You called me! I'm not giving you my account number!' "

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

" I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. "

" Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information. "

" I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast. "

Kevin Mitnick

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" I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization. "

" Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me. "

" Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted. "

" At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker. "

" What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology. "

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

" When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find. "

" As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool. "

" Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against. "

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

" My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job. "

" 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. "

" For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me. "

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

" I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. "

" I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there. "

" I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation. "

" I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines. "

" A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password. "

" I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. "

" When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care. "

Kevin Mitnick

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Care

" To some people I'll always be the bad guy. "