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 actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

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

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.

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

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.

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