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" If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient. "

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" 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. "

Kevin Mitnick

Security

Innocent

Organization

" I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies. "

" Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. "

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

" 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. "

" Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone. "

Kevin Mitnick

Telephone

Being

" Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes. "

" I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade. "

" I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. "

" I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. "

" Choosing a hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember password is important! "

Kevin Mitnick

Important

Choosing

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

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

" Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole. "

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

" When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no. "

" Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees. "

" The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous. "

" The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess. "

" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "

" I could pose as a Yahoo rep claiming that there's been some sort of fault, and somebody else is getting your e-mail, and we're going to have to remove your account and reinstall it. So what we'll do is reset the current password that you have - and by the way, what is it? "

" I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access. "

Kevin Mitnick

Engineers

I Can

" I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done. "

" You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Media

Care