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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. "

" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "

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

" When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.' "

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" 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 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. "

" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "

" Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. "

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

" I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay. "

" I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa. "

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" You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught. "

" I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father. "

" It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different. "

" I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies. "

" We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth. "

" It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. "

" 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. "

" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't do online banking. "

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" You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive. "

" Airline pilots are men to be admired and respected. Men to be trusted. Men of means. And you don't expect an airline pilot to be a local resident. Or a check swindler. "

" I'm glad I'm a draw. People know that, not only am I the guy that did it, I spent 40 years on the other side. "