I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

Choosing a hard-to-guess, but easy-to-remember password is important!

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

I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phishing targets because they usually have administrator rights over the network. Then I go onto Twitter or Facebook and trick them into doing something, and I have privileged access.

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