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" I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later. "

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" I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list. "

Kevin Mitnick

Mail

Jump

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

" Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail. "

" 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. "

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

Kevin Mitnick

Telephone

Being

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

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

" I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal. "

" All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. "

" 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. "

" If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection. "

" The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. "

" The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. "

" The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president! "

" A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people. "

" It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services. "

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

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

" I keep my stuff updated all the time. Being in the security industry, I keep up to date with securities. "

Kevin Mitnick

Time

Security

" Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. "

" But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people. "

" I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center - suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people. "

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

Kevin Mitnick

Joy

Myself

" 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 started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator. "

Kevin Mitnick

School

Computers

" Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses. "

" No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. "

" No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. "

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

" My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. "