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- Nov 07, 2020
Hacker Quotes
What people really mean when they say hacker.
This collection of hacker quotes moves from a real phone-hacking scandal to a band that borrowed the word for its name, showing how loaded the term has become. For a broader look at know-how, see our Skill quotes.
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- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be in an action movie. I've always wanted to play the hacker guy - like, the Jewy hacker guy who just gets yelled at.
- Phone
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I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
- Cyber
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I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
- Mind
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
- Component
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Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.
- Province
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News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.
- Person
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I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
- Exchanges
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In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excuse after excuse for why this non-investment investment lost so much of its value so fast. One was that hackers attacked some of the exchanges for Bitcoins and crippled it. Really? A hacker can wreck an entire market?
- Hacking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
- Person
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When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020