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As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
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Kevin Mitnick
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 6
Computer Scientist
Computer Security Consultant
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Security Hacker
Van Nuys
California
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Kevin David Mitnick
The Condor
The Darkside Hacker
Kevin D. Mitnick
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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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A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
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The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.
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So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.
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Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
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You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.
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Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.
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For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.
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Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems
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Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
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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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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.
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When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.
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I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
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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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The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.
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The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
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New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.
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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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