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" If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive. "

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" I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences. "

" If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents. "

" I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful. "

" I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that. "

" If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it. "

" Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. "

" Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.' "

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

" I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "

" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "

" I was always accepted at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; therefore, I must be a Pan Am pilot. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "

" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "

" Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it. "

" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "

" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "

" I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of. "

" The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera. "

" The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it. "

" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "

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