American - Businessman | August 6, 1963 -
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.
Kevin Mitnick
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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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Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me.
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I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
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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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All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.
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But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.
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Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
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I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.
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Some people think technology has the answers.
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The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.
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I did get a huge endorphin rush when I was able to crack a system because it was like a video game.
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