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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 is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

Real security will come when it's a moneymaker for private companies who want to satisfy public demand for an Internet that isn't crawling with bugs.

Governments are scared of software.

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.