I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

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

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.

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

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

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.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.