My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal.
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.
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At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.
I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.