American - Businessman | August 6, 1963 -
At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.
Kevin Mitnick
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The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
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To some people I'll always be the bad guy.
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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.
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I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.
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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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My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
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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.
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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.
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As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.
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Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
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You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.
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