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

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

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

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

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

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.