Kevin Mitnick Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Money, Technology, Safety

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

• It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Skills, People, Computer

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Writing, Adventure, Challenges

• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Teacher, School, Writing

• 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

  Kevin Mitnick

  People, Dollars, Use

• I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Years, Computer, Sometimes

  "A convicted hacker debunks some myths". Interview with Manav Tanneeru, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2005.

• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Attachment, Engineering, Deception

• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Drug, Would Be, Cash

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Successful, Government, Touching

• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Jobs, Apples, Ears

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

• Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Loss, Terrorist Groups, Manhattan

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview With Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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