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" When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no. "
Kevin Mitnick
You
Identity
Information
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" 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. "
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Now
Stupid
" I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage. "
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Cause
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Investment
See
Look
" So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. "
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Through
Lock
Software
" I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking. "
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Hacking
FBI
" The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care. "
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Care
Interesting
Reality
" I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game. "
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Like
Because
Crack
" 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. "
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Mobile
Information
Environment
" Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. "
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Ear
Computers
Set
" When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find. "
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Key
Hacker
Find
" No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. "
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Any
Losses
Company
" My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. "
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Adventure
Curiosity
Goal
" I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal. "
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Hooked
Even
Hacking
" Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art. "
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Performance
People
Art
" 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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Witness
Guy
Source
" 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. "
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Co-Workers
Work
Way
" 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. "
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Human
Engineering
Deception
" 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. "
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Curiosity
Adventure
Challenge
" Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees. "
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Phone
You
Explore
" People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. "
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Information
People
Nice
" The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher's password and all the other students' passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was. "
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Thought
Me
School
" 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. "
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Where
Computer
Case
" Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources. "
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Enough
Time
Attack
" The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce. "
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Hacking
Criminal
Because
" The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous. "
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Ridiculous
Internet
Without
" 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. "
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Possible
Never
You
" I happen to be notorious. That, I have no control over. "
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Control
Happen
Notorious
" My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems. "
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I Can
Security
Exploring
" At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker. "
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Best
Day
End