Hacking Quotations

I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a couple of hours. Or, if I'm feeling the hacking and slashing, I'll play a little 'God of War.'

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister.

Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.

China not only does not support hacking but also opposes it.

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

Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

My hacking involved pretty much exploring computer systems and obtaining access to the source code of telecommunication systems and computer operating systems, because my goal was to learn all I can about security vulnerabilities within these systems.

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

Phone phreaking is a type of hacking that allows you to explore the telephone network by exploiting the phone systems and phone company employees.

My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.

I was hooked in before hacking was even illegal.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

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

'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

On the Internet there are no boundaries, there are no doors, there are no countries and lines; it's just the Internet, wide open and if somebody feels like hacking a website, they're just going to do it. There's no personal information on the website, so they're not hacking for personal information, stealing social security numbers or anything, they're hacking just to do it.

We need to be consistent offensively. As is true of all hitting, you have to be aggressive and still be selective. Last year, either we would go up there hacking or be too selective. Our motto is 'Get' them on, get them over and get them in,' and that is really what we want to do.

Most organizations have spent millions to protect their physical locations and wired networks, but if you're not securing the airwaves, you're leaving the back door wide open for hackers. Wireless networks bleed across physical boundaries and can render internal networks vulnerable to attack. In our seminar series, we will share the secrets of hacking and provide businesses with the information they need to make smart decisions about how their organization will address the growing risks associated with wireless networking.

Groups that are hacking these sites are making it hard for us to convict the pedophiles behind those sites,

For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.

I give our kids credit, we do a great job of hacking at the ball. Every one of our tackles, we're right on the point of the ball, ripping and tugging. We practice it and we preach it.

Because so many hacking attacks are not from the hackers' computer, but are instead spread throughout a system of many computers, that is one reason it is difficult for law enforcement.

We've been watching with great interest. We need to be aware of potential hacking into the DOD computer system and be able to defend against some of those attacks.

Hacking is moving finally from a hobby to a job. The money is moving online and so are the bad guys.

He wasn't just showing the games. I was getting hacking lessons from an 11-year-old. It was definitely telling of our times, but he's a smart kid and just incredible.

There is a growing criminal element involved in hacking today.

My vote had nothing to do with Hacking

Stealing tapes is not the most elegant, but one of the most effective attack factors. Many companies think about hacking in terms of getting root access to servers, but if they have weak physical security, someone can just walk out the door with a box of tapes.

I think it's probably very safe to make travel arrangements online. The chances of somebody hacking in and getting your credit card number are about as good or bad as somebody picking up the slips from your card that you use in a restaurant.

We were hacking more and fouling. We weren't disciplined on defense.

We were hacking more. We were undisciplined on defense.

We found a number of hacking software that had been loaded onto the computer. He had used that to gain access to the administrative computer.

When it comes to people hacking in and eavesdropping . . . it's very hard to do.

We were up there hacking like chefs at Benihana's the first three innings.

We've had fun flexing our media hacking muscles to build this research prototype over the past month.

You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

We are seeing a shift from the destruction of data to the theft of data. They are going from hacking for fun to hacking for fortune.

Computer hacking and data theft are serious crimes in our modern economy. Because of the volume and value of the data stolen by (Levine), this quickly became a priority case for us.

Computer hacking is not fun and games. Hackers cause real harm to real victims as graphically illustrated in this case.

Computer hacking is not fun and games. Hackers cause real harm to real victims. Would-be hackers... should be put on notice that such criminal activity will not be tolerated.

You can't build your way out of this. We need to start hacking away at the root causes of dependency.

Denial of service attacks occur periodically, but they are not as common as people trying to hack into a site, since hacking in enables you to alter the site's content and post something for everyone to see.

During my opening remarks, I explicitly encouraged attendees to take a shot at hacking the wireless network. Given the level and concentration of hacker talent at these events, I was more than pleasantly surprised they did not succeed. In fact, this is the first year the wireless network has managed to stay up without interruption for more than four hours. That is a true testament to the intrusion protection and advanced security functionality of Aruba's wireless solution.

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

They said there was no way this could be wrong. I hear and read about people hacking into the federal government's computers, and I thought I was a victim of it.

There was a lot of hacking going on.

They were hacking at the first pitch I threw every time. It was a good test. I got ready quick. I got ready in the middle of an inning. I definitely left a few pitches up, and that's going to happen for me early because I'm still in that feeling-out stage early after surgery.

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.

In both painting and hacking there are some tasks that are terrifyingly ambitious, and others that are comfortably routine. It's a good idea to save some easy tasks for moments when you would otherwise stall.

I'm very heartened by the fact that there has not been this pouncing, coming in with a dull knife to start hacking away. We have thrown a lot of revenue to them over the last decade and there's an acknowledgment that this is a down cycle.

I started hacking in Mono a few months ago for some personal projects, and was very impressed with how complete and usable it is.

The vast majority of our customers have no need and no desire to be programming their robots. But there are a few people out there who really enjoy hacking things.

But it is the smaller cases of hacking on normal people and businesses that don't get given the same type of focus. If each and every cyber crime case were given the same amount of attention as this one, then the world would be a safer place for us normal users.

Before recently, point-of-sale systems stored the track data. Most point-of-sale systems accumulated thousands of data and hackers have been hacking into point-of-sale systems and stealing track data.

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

It just bugs me that if there is a recount there's no good way to check on it. Let's face it. You work with computers every day. You know there's more ways than hacking that you can tamper with it.

It's always a risk between the criminals and the good guys. So the better they become at hacking it, the better we'll become at making it stronger.

There's also usually a black hat contingent at most mainstream security conferences. Since information security and hacking are two sides of the same coin, many hackers go to security conferences and many security professionals go to hacker events -- neither community seems to mind.

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.

Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

Now... thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there's not enough Truffula Fruit to go 'round.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.