Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

There is no patch for stupidity.

Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

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

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

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.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.

Think of your woods and orchards without birds!Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beamsAs in an idiot's brain remembered wordsHang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

a good friendship is beneficial to both, a bought friend is a free enemy that no one can afford.

A wise man once said NOTHING... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our destiny.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.