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

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" If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity. "

" If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame. "

" It's quite flattering to have Leonardo DiCaprio play you in the movie. He's a great-looking young man. "

" 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. "

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

" Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. "

" It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity. "

" I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks. "

" If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out. "

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

" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "

" I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering. "

" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "

" It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.' "

" We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure. "

" If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. "

" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "

" 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.' "

" My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. "

" Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. "

" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "

" When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.' "

" I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "