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.

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.

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.

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.