Kevin Mitnick

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#firm #fugitive #i #law #law firm

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #competitor #covered #data #dive

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

— Kevin Mitnick

#fear #hackers #heart #intention #should

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#ethic #following #i #life #my life

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#agenda #becoming #best #breaking #compromised

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#attachment #click #computer #convince #deception

Some people think technology has the answers. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#people #some #some people #technology #think

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#apple #computing #ear #founded #inc

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

#allows #engineering #gain #hacker #influencing

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#interesting #kevin #more #much #myth