Mitnick Hacker Quotes & Sayings

Crises can never break the one who relies on God's strength. — T. B. Joshua

The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president! — Kevin Mitnick

While the Texas prison officials remained in the dark about what was going on, they were fortunate that William and Danny had benign motives. Imagine what havoc the two might have caused; it would have been child's play for these guys to develop a scheme for obtaining money or property from unsuspecting victims. The Internet had become their university and playground. Learning how to run scams against individuals or break in to corporate sites would have been a cinch; teenagers and preteens learn these methods every day from the hacker sites and elsewhere on the Web. And as prisoners, Danny and William had all the time in the world.

Maybe there's a lesson here: Two convicted murderers, but that didn't mean they were scum, rotten to the core. They were cheaters who hacked their way onto the Internet illegally, but that didn't mean they were willing to victimize innocent people or naively insecure companies. — Kevin D. Mitnick

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person. — Alice McDermott

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. — Kevin Mitnick

The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic. — Kevin D. Mitnick

Every hacker is to some extent a rebel who lives by different standards and enjoys beating the system. — Kevin D. Mitnick

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

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you. — Brian Tracy

A pissy werelion was rather difficult to live with. — Ilona Andrews

But there's no doubt that children have an innate sense of humor. No matter how young they are, they always know when something's really funny. — Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Wolves fear humans for good reason. Humans fear wolves out of misunderstanding. — John Theberge

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things. — Josh Brolin

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms. — Kevin Mitnick

At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker. — Kevin Mitnick

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

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone. — Gloria Vanderbilt

His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time. — Nick Flynn

If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection. — Kevin Mitnick

My advice is this, do whatever pleases yourself. These things don't matter. What does matter is that if you have anything worth while in you, any talent, you should deliver it. Nothing must turn you from that. — Patrick Kavanagh

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities. — Kevin Mitnick

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. — Kevin Mitnick

When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me. — Lenny Kravitz

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government. — Kevin Mitnick

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage. — Kevin Mitnick

Somebody could send you an office document or a PDF file, and as soon as you open it, it's a booby trap and the hacker has complete control of your computer. Another major problem is password management. People use the same password on multiple sites, so when the hacker compromises one site, they have your password for everywhere else. — Kevin Mitnick

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. — Kevin Mitnick

They don't care that the math doesn't work. They don't care that the young scream in protest and the old moan their same tired wisdoms. This is just a demonstration of their power. It is their power. They decide the winner. A game of merit won by birth. It keeps the hierarchy in place. It keeps us striving, but never conspiring. — Pierce Brown

F_k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it - be a hacker. — Kevin D. Mitnick

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge. — Iris Murdoch

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. — Kevin Mitnick