As a young boy, I was taught in high sch... by Kevin Mitnick | We Heart Quotes

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

- Kevin Mitnick

Other quotes by Kevin Mitnick

Day Job Now

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

- Kevin Mitnick

Pretty Government

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

- Kevin Mitnick

Heart

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

- Kevin Mitnick

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

Government

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

- 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

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