Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler to write a program to get the teacher’s password and all the other students’ passwords. And the teacher gave me an A and told the class how smart I was. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
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. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don’t involve anybody else. The greater the circle of people that know what you’re doing, the higher the risk. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
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. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
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. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication – which are important and needed – but then they don’t train their people. Kevin Mitnick Read Quote
