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What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others and to explain it to people whose only qualifications may be the desire to learn.
Emmanuel Goldstein
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Behind every successful Coder there an even more successful DeCoder to understand that code.
Anonymous
Software vulnerabilities, though very common, are not the biggest threat to security. Rather, the real threats are your users and your hardware. The bad news is, we don’t have a reasonable level of understanding on them. Even worse, we wouldn’t have even if we wanted to.
M. Uğur Aksu
A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
Laura Creighton
While the vast majority of hackers may be disciplined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
Dorothy E. Denning
The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it.
A.J. Darkholme
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cyber tools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else’s data.
John David McAfee
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker’s toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
John McAfee
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
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information on your network.
Kevin Mitnick
The intent of the individuals who created the DDOS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.
Kevin Mitnick
Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automative engineer.
Eric S. Raymond
Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.
Adi Shamir
The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.
John McAfee
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Bill Gates
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.
Wietse Venema
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra