Fred Durst Quotes

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 you don't treat [computer and Internet] security like a religious fanatic, you are going to be hurt like you can't imagine.

Without those hackers, we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.

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

Data leaks are impossible to reverse, so the best strategy is to prevent intruders from having prolonged, unfettered access to the systems in the first place.

Deterrence is … a weak tool in the increasingly important realm of cyberspace, where it can be extremely difficult to be absolutely sure of an attacker’s identity.

Cybersecurity is a new issue for the international community at large. First of all, the technologies are new and the attacks are invisible. Traditionally, if you perceived a threat, it could be seen. It was physical. But not in cyberspace.

The next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyberattack.

Hackers will always be one step ahead of the Feds.

The very promise of safety [digital security] is iresistable temptation to hackers, the invading hordes of the 21st century.

I will say that one of the things that hackers, of all shapes and sizes, prize the most in this world is anonymity and stealth and deniability. And by indicting them publicly, among other things, we strip them of that.

I don't need to understand how encryption works to understand how it's helping the criminals.

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

There is no data base that is totally secure. The hackers are always one step ahead and have a vested interest in obtaining the data.

Now we have the hacker kids playing politics.

Cyberattacks diminish rather than accentuate political violence by making it easier for states, groups, and individuals to engage in two kinds of aggression that do not arise to the level of war: sabotage and espionage. Weaponized computer code and computer-based sabotage operations make it possible to carry out highly targeted attacks on adversary’s technical systems without directly and physically harming human operators and managers.