The hacker mindset doesn't actually see... by Kevin Mitnick | We Heart Quotes

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

- Kevin Mitnick

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People

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.

- Kevin Mitnick

Technology People

Some people think technology has the answers.

- Kevin Mitnick

Heart

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

- Kevin Mitnick

Security World

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.

- Kevin Mitnick

Space

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

- Kevin Mitnick

People

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

- Kevin Mitnick

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Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

- Kevin Mitnick

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

- Kevin Mitnick

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

- Kevin Mitnick

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

- Kevin Mitnick