#hacker

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

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While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#disinclined #few #hackers #into #majority

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

#because #comes #especially #hackers #hate

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

#comes #especially #hackers #hate #i

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#figure #first #first thing #give #hacker

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#get #hackers #how #i #install

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#bit #crime #cyber #fair #fanatic

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

#became #began #civil #civil liberties #electronic

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. ↗

— Justin Long

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Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#again #beating #because #become #best