When we hear the word Hacker, we usually have a picture of a person trying to steal something. But in real world there are always two side of the coins. The correct defination of Hackers is an adherent of the technology and programming subculture. Someone who is able to subvert computer security. If doing so for malicious purposes, the person can also be called a cracker.
We have accumulated the list of 7 Such hackers and their famous quotes:
Kevin David Mitnick (born August 6, 1965) is an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker, best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.
Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.
Kevin David Mitnick
Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American marketer and author. He is the former director of marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer.
Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.
Ryan Holiday
John David McAfee is an English-American computer programmer and businessman. He founded the software company McAfee Associates in 1987 and ran it until 1994, when he resigned from the company.
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cyber tools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else’s data.
John David mcafee
Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer and politician. She is the founder of the tech organization Girls Who Code. She was previously the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate.
In the ’80s, society created a caricature of what a hacker or a programmer looked like: a guy wearing a hoodie, drinking energy drinks, sitting in a basement somewhere coding. Today, programmers look like the men we see in the show ‘Silicon Valley’ on HBO. If you look at the message girls are getting, it’s saying, ‘This is not for you.’
Reshma saujani
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen is a computer security expert and columnist. He is known for the Hypponen Law about IoT security, which states that whenever an appliance is described as being “smart”, it is vulnerable.
I’ve spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don’t fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as The New Hacker’s Dictionary
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic and able to distribute them over the Internet.
Eric s raymond
James Werner Zawinski, commonly known as jwz, is an American computer programmer with contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser.
Software Engineering might be science; but that’s not what I do. I’m a hacker, not an engineer.
James Werner Zawinski
