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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
Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving. -- Heather Brooke
Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion. -- Kevin Mitnick
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. -- Eric S. Raymond
Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. -- Mitch Kapor
It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. -- Ken Thompson
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. -- Larry Wall
Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes. -- Michael Demon Calce
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away. -- Esther Dyson
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. -- Kevin Mitnick
Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders. -- Kevin Mitnick
Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world. -- Sarah Lacy
Where there's a will, there's a way. Hackers tend to find a way. Code is also expanding. More lines of code means more probability that there is an exploit that can be [used]. -- Michael Demon Calce
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate. -- Bob Barr
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. -- Eric S. Raymond
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine. -- Angelina Jolie
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
[Hackers] did not stop. They - they came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly. -- Donna Brazile
Hackers are nerdy, pasty, tubby, little geeks with triple thick glasses and this is probably a demented otaku with smelly feet. So catching him will be a breeze! -- Keiko Nobumoto
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. -- Bruce Sterling
Certainly we're going to do whatever that loaded word retaliate is, we're going to do everything we can in order to prevent all of this stuff [Hackers attacks] from happening ever again. -- Reince Priebus
The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed. -- Jonathan Zittrain
A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. -- Justin Long
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. -- Eric S. Raymond
Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon. -- Kevin Mitnick
I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal. -- Mikko Hypponen
Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war. -- Michael Demon Calce
A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance. -- Michael Demon Calce
See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. -- Jamie Zawinski
U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers. -- John O. Brennan
There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers. -- Michael Demon Calce
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. -- Dorothy E. Denning
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. -- Dorothy E. Denning
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. -- Kevin Mitnick
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
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm. -- Dorothy Denning
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm. -- Dorothy Denning
I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security. -- Fred Durst
If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don't involve anybody else. The greater the circle of people that know what you're doing, the higher the risk. -- Kevin Mitnick
I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization. -- Kevin Mitnick
It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker. -- Kevin Mitnick
If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security. -- Fred Durst
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market. -- Ethan Zuckerman
It's much easier to become a hacker now. It was a private community before and you had to find your way in, like tumbling down a rabbit hole. Today, there are all-in-one desktops fully equipped with tools pre-built into the operating system, all related to hacking. They are all very powerful tools and free to download. -- Michael Demon Calce
I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes. -- Michelle Gagnon
As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers. -- Michael Demon Calce
Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security -- Fred Durst
Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list. -- David Letterman
Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them -- Dean Stockwell
Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it. -- Erik Naggum
We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop]. -- Donna Brazile
There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever. -- Shia LaBeouf
The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it. -- Vinton Cerf
The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers. -- Kevin Mitnick
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus. -- Jasper Fforde
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
Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer. -- Ricky Gervais
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
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
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I also want to make sure that when we debate these things [hackers attacks], that we actually have the facts that are very clear in front of us to have this debate. -- Reince Priebus
An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problem the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists. -- James Comey
I think it's a little premature to talk about response until we know exactly what happened, but we should know what happened. And we should know how to defend [against hackers attacks] ourselves without question. -- Rand Paul

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