Kevin Mitnick Biography

Kevin Mitnick, Celebrity
Occup.Celebrity
FromUSA
BornAugust 6, 1963
Age60 years
Kevin David Mitnick is one of the most famous cyberpunks ever before been imprisoned. He was punished to a punishment that several take into consideration to be rather hard symmetrical to his criminal offense.

Timeline:
1981 - Dom to destroy data on a local area network and taking administrator guidebooks from your phone company.

1983 - Convicted of getting into Pentagon computer system through the ARPANET from the University of USCs terminals.

1987 - Convicted of swiping software from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO).

1988 - begged guilty to an allegation of computer system scams and also a fee of remaining in ownership of prohibited long-distance access codes, after being entraped for nocturnal attacks in an attempt to require the access to Digital's business network, called Easynet, for the objective of steal a duplicate of Digital's VMS minicomputer-control system.

1990 - Had to go underground for over a year after allegations of trying on a TRW credit-computer. An apprehension warrant was released, however, for unknown reasons it disappeared from the police system without description.

1994 - The Christmas Mitnick burglarized Tsutomu Shimomuras computer systems in San Diego, California. Much less than two months later on, Tsutomu had actually tracked Mitnick in an electronic search throughout the United States.

1995 - Mitnick was jailed by the FBI on 15 February. He was charged and also founded guilty of getting into one of America's the majority of safe computer system systems. Among other things, listen to others' telephone calls.

2002 - Release from jail with the proviso that he was under no circumstance respectable to find near a computer or the Internet.

2003 - On 21 January, Mitnick, on real-time television, go online for the first time given that his apprehension in 1995. The initial site he went to was the guy's blog.

Today - Co-founder of Mitnick Security Consulting company, previous Defensive Thinking that provides consultants to protection problems.

Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Kevin, under the main topic Computers.

Related authors: Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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22 Famous quotes by Kevin Mitnick

Small: Some people think technology has the answers
"Some people think technology has the answers"
Small: So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to
"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock"
Small: Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion
"Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion"
Small: My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies invo
"My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims"
Small: I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holisti
"I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control"
Small: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macin
"Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984"
Small: Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because therell be people out there that are huntin
"Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management"
Small: Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you
"Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you"
Small: So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school
"So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school"
Small: All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of
"All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers"
Small: But a lot of businesses out there dont see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, an
"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"
Small: As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool
"As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool"
Small: Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends
"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"
Small: Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the be
"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"
Small: Of course Im sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me
"Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me"
Small: Im an expert witness in a case thats in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code fr
"I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later"
Small: I was pretty much the governments poster boy for what I had done
"I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done"
Small: We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management
"We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management"
Small: It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computer
"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"
Small: The hacker mindset doesnt actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim
"The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim"
Small: I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but Im trying to be now, Im trying to take this
"I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade"
Small: Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code,
"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"