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" 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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" I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization. "

Kevin Mitnick

Hacking

Hacker

Never

" 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. "

" Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders. "

" 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. "

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

" Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody. "

" My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. "

" 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

" There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them. "

" 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. "

" Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources. "

" I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines. "

" 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. "

" I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology. "

" What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited. "

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

Kevin Mitnick

Telephone

Being

" I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the risk to a reasonable degree. "

" For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me. "

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

" Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking. "

" I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything. "

Kevin Mitnick

Myself

Support

" One of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak. When he'd attempt to make a call from home, he'd get a message telling him to deposit a dime, because the telephone company switch received input that indicated he was calling from a pay phone. "

" I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me. "

Kevin Mitnick

Credit

Trust

" Some people think technology has the answers. "

" The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care. "

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

" I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game. "

Kevin Mitnick

Because

Crack

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