“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.” LightUniverseComputerHappeningsQuantumHackingHackersComputationHijacking Author:Seth Lloyd
“The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.” WorldWayShouldArtHandsMightAgeRaceTeachInformationPositionDegreesAuthorityComputerEthicsAccessYieldJudgedUnlimitedChanging Your LifeImperativesCriteriaMistrustHackingHackersDecentralization Author:Steven Levy
“Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.” IfsWantGovernmentYoungHouseParentProudComputerOutsidersHackersInsidersDelinquentsShutting Down Author:John Waters
“Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.” WantDifferentComputerHackers Author:John Badham
“Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.” ComputerHarderHackers Author:Ricky Gervais
“The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)” Has BeensBehindsInternetComputerResearchClimateUniversityMythEastBrokeGlobal WarmingHatsExposedConspiracyUnitsFilesHackersConfidentialAka Author:James Delingpole
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.” ThinkingEasyStuffDarkInterestingBreakSeeingInformationComputerAccountsMost InterestingBank AccountsHackersInteresting Stuff Author:Scott Eastwood
“My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a hacker, I'm an executive but I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome that you want. It turns out to make the coffee, the problem is actually how the beans get turn into green coffee. That's where most of the problems happen.” WantProblemHappensTurnsSecurityComputerGreenMindsetCoffeeBackgroundsOutcomesExecutivesBeansComputer ScienceHackersComputer Security Author:Dave Asprey
“What has happened is that we have seen a shift in the past twenty years in the very concept of hacking. So hacking twenty years ago was a neutral, positive concept. Somebody who was a hacker was someone with advanced computer skills, which could expose vulnerabilities and could explain why systems worked well or worked badly and they were generally regarded as an asset. Over the past twenty years, a combination of media and law enforcement has changed the perception of the concept so that it has almost always, if not invariably, a pejorative sense attached.” PastChangedComputerPerceptionVulnerabilityLaw EnforcementOver The PastHackers Author:Misha Glenny
“The criminal justice system - although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to criminal justice - in Europe where rehab is supposed to be integral, we have no way of rehabilitating skilled hackers. On the contrary what we do is we demonize them and continue to do so after they come out of jail because we restrict their access to computers by law. Crazy world, crazy people.” PeopleWorldJusticeCrazyComputerValuableJustice SystemCriminal JusticeHackersCrazy PeopleCrazy World Author:Misha Glenny
“A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.” BodyHandsEarthTurnsIndividualInternetComputerDoctorsManagementPatientConnectedInternalsDigitalOnlineDevicesLinksOrgansHackersSmartphonesVandals Author:Charles C. Mann
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” IfsPersonsMoneyCompanyTechnologySecurityCallingWasteComputerHundredSafetyDollarsTrustedAttackingHackersIntrusionDetectionEncryptionComplying Author:Kevin Mitnick