Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

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

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

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

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.

I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.