#hacking

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

#authorization #before #compared #did #difference

It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bank #because #caught #commit #crime

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bite #could #criminal #curiosity #even

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#become #becoming #better #bugs #code

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#broke #committee #company #ended #fate

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond. ↗

— Jennifer Wyatt

#back #hacking #i #richmond #started

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #despite #game #getting #going

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#evil #hacking #root #striking #thousand

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#hacking #know #lot #other #people

The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#facebook #hacking #humour #new-york-yankees #sport