Quotes About Hacking

hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos.

The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.

What's more likely, that someone found a way to hack this unhackable system? Or that Isaac Jordan willingly killed thousands of people?

The smartest hackers understand that their skill at hacking technology may be less important than their skill at hacking the digital marketplace.

NSA "hunts" system administrators who control computer networks and servers, then targets their private email and Facebook accounts to gather information useful for hacking into their computers and gaining access to the entire network of computers they control.

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

No matter which party is in the White House, doubt in America's democratic institutions rattles our nation to its core. This should not be a partisan issue for any reason, as any candidate or party could be on the receiving end of a hack at any time.

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme.

The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I've had with hackers and from people in tech who are brilliant at this thing, is there's a lot of angst.

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

You hack my laptop program; I know; however, you do not realize that I know your all evil duties and deeds that destine hell for you.

called counter command-control warfare: just knowing that you'd been hacked, regardless of its tangible effects, was disorienting, disrupting. Meanwhile

One word was floating around in stories about hackings of one sort or another: "cyber." The word had its roots in "cybernetics," a term dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, describing the closed loops of information systems. But in its present-day context of computer networks, the term stemmed from William Gibson's 1984 science-fiction novel, Neuromancer, a wild and eerily prescient tale of murder and mayhem in the virtual world of "cyberspace.

The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president!

Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

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.

As I found myself in the thick of the biggest investigative story of my career, I suffered state-backed computer hacking of my systems. Myself and my family were stalked by private security companies; my house was under surveillance.