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Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#anything #continue #doing #impractical #living

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period. ↗

— Art Modell

#family #had #i #keep #period

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book. ↗

— Marvin Mitchelson

#chameleon #divorce #law #lawyer

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#claims #companies #constituted #despite #expenses

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

#any #cause #conduct #degree #depends

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#any #basically #because #code #compromised

But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#businesses #gives #hard #investment #liability

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

#casualties #cause #computer #cyber #day

I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#administrator #because #come #doing #engineers

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