3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we’ve always found a hole.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it’s actually easier than it was years ago.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government’s false claims.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was – and is – respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
3 December 2020 Kevin Mitnick Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
