#comp

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#back #class #computer #days #first

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

#adventure #causing #challenge #computer #curiosity

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#computer #consider #i #myself #thief

I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#better #company #control #fascinated #get

I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#actually #allegedly #apparently #appeal #case

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

#authorization #before #compared #did #difference

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

#become #becoming #better #bugs #code

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#anything #attempted #break #classified #complete

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#always #even #hand #high #i

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