Kevin Mitnick Quotes

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I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines.

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Successful attacks these days are hybrid. Attackers use a combination of Social Engineering and Spear Phishing to compromise systems and networks.

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I think the federal government came down harder on me is because I was playing games on them.

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The hack I was most proud was actually hacking the McDonald's drive-through window. [...] It wasn't about hacking a computer. It was actually hacking their drive up windows so that I could overtake the radio in the drive-through window. I could sit across the street and talk and pretend that I was the employee inside McDonald's. The poor employee could hear what's going on but my transmitter was more powerful than his.

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I was raised at a time where the instructors in high school encouraged hacking and there were no laws against it.

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I was a hacker for a number of years before I became involved in security because there was no such occupation for doing it legally.

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The hackers of my time were never in it to steal money. They could break into systems to get access to information. But it wasn't a for-profit venture. Today, you have organized crime using hacking.

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