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As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool. -- Kevin Mitnick
Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element. -- Kevin Mitnick
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. -- Steve Wozniak
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -- Henry David Thoreau
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. -- Kevin Mitnick
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
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. -- Kevin Mitnick
I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked. -- Kevin Mitnick
Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking. -- Kevin Mitnick
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
Hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them. -- Donald Trump
Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have. -- Steve Coogan
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I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond. -- Jennifer Wyatt
The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce. -- Kevin Mitnick
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. -- Kevin Mitnick
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body. -- J. F. C. Fuller
Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war. -- Michael Demon Calce
When I was hacking, it was more pushing the status quo and seeing how far you can go. -- Michael Demon Calce
Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder -- Eoin Colfer
Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal. -- Dorothy Denning
Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal. -- Dorothy Denning
A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain. -- Michael Demon Calce
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
It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream. -- Dan Kaminsky
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away. -- Alan Watts
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way. -- Ali MacGraw
I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there? -- Michael Moore
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. -- Henry Rollins
If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism. -- Heather Brooke
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. -- Richard Stallman
I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a couple of hours. Or, if I'm feeling the hacking and slashing, I'll play a little 'God of War.' -- Tracy Spiridakos
Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain. -- Michael McCaul
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties. -- Kevin Mitnick
It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none. -- Kevin Mitnick
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. -- Caroline Knapp
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -- Henry David Thoreau
It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker. -- Kevin Mitnick
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
The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking. -- E. J. Dionne
People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data. -- Tim Cook
Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking. -- Richard Stallman
You can do reverse engineering, but you can't do reverse hacking. -- Francis Crick
You have no idea whether the hacking even influenced the election. -- Reince Priebus
China not only does not support hacking but also opposes it. -- Li Keqiang
Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists. -- Mason Cooley
If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know. -- Nancy Pelosi
[ Cyber hacking] that's probably the only thing that we've learned from Hillary Clinton. -- Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking. -- Donald Trump
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. -- Edward Abbey
The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking]. -- Donna Brazile
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. -- Neal Stephenson
All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system. -- Tommy McCarthy
I don't want anyone hacking us. And I'm not only talking about countries. I'm talking about anyone, period. -- Donald Trump
I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking. -- Kevin Mitnick
Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder" -- Eoin Colfer
Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword. -- Ilona Andrews
The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers. -- Kevin Mitnick
It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses. -- Evan Glodell
The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking. -- John Kasich
Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees. -- Kevin Mitnick
I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case. -- Kevin Mitnick
It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before. -- Tim Cook
We contacted the FBI months ago, when the DNC issue came about. They've reviewed all of our systems. We have hacking detection systems in place. -- Reince Priebus
I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills! -- Jon Heder
For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country. -- Evan Osnos
Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door. -- Nina Easton
An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming. -- Harlan Mills
Which [the cyber hacking] is why one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information. -- Donald Trump
If somebody's hacking you, you don't want them to know that you know. You want to find out what they're doing, how they're doing it, and then you'll let them know you know. -- Nancy Pelosi
We want to protect American interests. It's America first. I don't want the D.N.C. hacked. I don't want anybody hacked. But I don't know who did the hacking. That's my point. -- Reince Priebus
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer. -- Seth Lloyd
Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside. -- Toni Morrison
You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components. -- Edwin Land

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