Michael Calce Quotes & Sayings

In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks. — Michael Demon Calce

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years. — T.K. Naliaka

A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain. — Michael Demon Calce

There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers. — Michael Demon Calce

A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance. — Michael Demon Calce

Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war. — Michael Demon Calce

Every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly wells up like the noise of springwater in my ear. Tree limbs rise and fall like ecstatic arms. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors. The green felt cover slips; we get a flash of the mirror underneath. The conventional opinion of this poetry is that it shows great optimism for the future. But Father Reason says, No need to announce the future. This now is it. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by this moment's energy here in your hand. — Rumi

When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go. — Michael Demon Calce

Where there's a will, there's a way. Hackers tend to find a way. Code is also expanding. More lines of code means more probability that there is an exploit that can be [used]. — Michael Demon Calce

I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket. — Michael Demon Calce

Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us. — James Lee Burke

As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers. — Michael Demon Calce

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. — Abraham Lincoln

Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes. — Michael Demon Calce

It's much easier to become a hacker now. It was a private community before and you had to find your way in, like tumbling down a rabbit hole. Today, there are all-in-one desktops fully equipped with tools pre-built into the operating system, all related to hacking. They are all very powerful tools and free to download. — Michael Demon Calce

Watchfulness, or alertness, or awareness, or consciousness, are all different names of the same phenomenon of witnessing. That is the key word. Miss — Osho

Almost all exploits are simple mistakes. — Michael Demon Calce

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise. — Chris Hayes

The security world needs to take a more proactive approach. A lot of companies will know an exploit exists and they'll release the software anyways, and the patch later on. Stuff like this needs to stop. There needs to be some kind of agency that verifies code before it's released, maybe a grading system for code. — Michael Demon Calce