No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

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.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests.