Hackers Quotes - Page 2

• A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

  Richard Stallman

  Mean, Community, Mit

  Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing, www.gnu.org. 1996.

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• The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Sides, Mindset, Victim

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick, Part 2". Interview With Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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• When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Keys, Trying, Want

  "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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• To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Creative, Doe, Use

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• If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Eye, Doors, Blood

  "The Sony Hack and the Yellow Pres" by Aaron Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2014.

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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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Cat, Swings, Games

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• The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.

  Stephen Colbert

  Yankees, Years, Pages

  Twitter post from Aug 03, 2012

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• The new iPhone has encryption that protects the contents of the phone. This means if someone steals your phone - if a hacker or something images your phone - they can't read what's on the phone itself, they can't look at your pictures, they can't see the text messages you send, and so forth. But it does not stop law enforcement from tracking your movements via geolocation on the phone if they think you are involved in a kidnapping case, for example.

  Edward Snowden

  Mean, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Band, World, Growing

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• The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

  Conan O'Brien

  News, Scripts, Said

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• In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Waiting, World, Hacking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

  Gerard Way

  Missing, Mind, Bumper Sticker

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• When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Men, Bvb

  "Fictional character: Admiral Sir Edward Pellew". "Horatio Hornblower 3", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

  John Badham

  Different, Want, Computer

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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• Never send a boy to do a woman's job.

  Angelina Jolie

  Jobs, Boys

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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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Intellectual, Curiosity, Thrill

  "Kevin Mitnick, Former Fugitive Hacker, Laments How The Game Has Changed". Interview with Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Garbage Cans, Names, Numbers

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• Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

  Bruce Sterling

  Inquiry, Arrogant, Spirit

  "Bruce Sterling: Notes from the Near Future". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 10, 2012.

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• God is a hacker, not an engineer

  Francis Crick

  Inspirational, Engineers

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• Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

  Jonathan Lynn

  Funny, Facts, Journalism

  Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

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• There is no need to distract the attention of the community from the essence of the subject substituting it with secondary questions dealing with the search of those who did it [hacker's attacks].

  Vladimir Putin

  Essence, Community, Needs

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Thinking, Tools, Linux

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• As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers.

  Michael Demon Calce

  World, Entry

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Incredibly, hackers were able to obtain at least 20 million identities of people who under FBI background and were under FBI background investigations.

  Donald Trump

  People, Identity, Able

  Source: time.com

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