Quotes by Kevin Mitnick

About Kevin Mitnick:

Kevin David Mitnick is an American computer security consultant, author and Cracker, best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and later five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.
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Sometimes I get a call from my bank, and the first thing they ask is, 'Mr. Mitnick, may I get your account number?' And I'll say, 'You called me! I'm not giving you my account number!'

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There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them.

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A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.

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If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.

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When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

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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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As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

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My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

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I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.

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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 program...

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The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications.

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I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

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Nine out of every 10 large corporations and government agencies have been attacked by computer intruders.

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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

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One of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak. When he'd attempt to make a call from home, he'd get a message telling him to deposit a dime, becau...

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

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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.

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I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my...

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

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Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

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I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, a...

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Author Bio

  • NameKevin Mitnick
  • DescriptionAmerican computer security consultant, author, convicted criminal, and hacker
  • AliasesMarty; Kevin David Mitnick; The Condor; The Darkside Hacker
  • BornAugust 6, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Consultant; Hacker