That's not a badge of honor I enjoy, ... I never had malicious intent. I was never trying to hurt anyone or damage anything.
"Kevin David Mitnick" is an American computer security consultant, author and Hacker (computer security)/hacker. In 1999, he was convicted of various computer and communications-related crimes. At the time of his arrest, he was the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States. He now runs a security firm named Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC that helps test a company's security strengths, weaknesses, and potential loopholes, and is the Chief Hacking Officer of security awareness training company KnowBe4.
Mitnick is an active advisory board member at Zimperium, a mobile defense firm that develops a mobile intrusion prevention system.
More Kevin Mitnick on Wikipedia.Getting access to source code . . . was kind of like the secret ingredient. I wanted to know what the secret was.
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems.
It's going to be very, very hard for him.
It's still basically just solving a puzzle, ... Years ago, with poor judgment, I was intrigued to break through security on computer systems. Now I do it with the client's permission, for socially acceptable reasons.
Not only are all of his skills ... oriented toward computers, but even if he were to not want to work in the computer field, it's very hard to get a job of any kind that does not require you to work with computers.
At the time the books were released, I was in custody, so I had higher priorities - dealing with my criminal case - than dealing with litigation. There's a lot of information out there that is inaccurate.
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