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If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Somebody could send you an office document or a PDF file, and as soon as you open it, it's a booby trap and the hacker has complete control of your computer. Another major problem is password management. People use the same password on multiple sites, so when the hacker compromises one site, they have your password for everywhere else.

Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.

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.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.