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

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

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

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

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

I believe in having each device secured and monitoring each device, rather than just monitoring holistically on the network, and then responding in short enough time for damage control.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.