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"Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive."

"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."

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

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"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock."

"Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management."

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

"We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management."
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