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• ‟ To some people I'll always be the bad guy.

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• ‟ Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.

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• ‟ What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology.

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• ‟ Some people think technology has the answers.

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• ‟ People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.

  - Kevin Mitnick
  

• ‟ It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.

  - Kevin Mitnick