Memorable Interview: Kevin Mitnick

"You can have the best computer set-up in the world but, if someone can convince a member of staff to let them in, all that is useless. The weakest link in any security chain is always human."
- Kevin Mitnick in "The hacker's tale: an interview with Kevin Mitnick"
An interview with the Financial Times
Published October 26, 2002

October 6, 1997

"I'd shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders."

- Michael S. Dell, CEO of Dell Computer, in response to being asked at a Gartner Group symposium what he would do if he woke up in the body of Steve Jobs.

October 1, 2002

"You can't stop technology. Even if they succeed in shutting down those particular services, new services will spring  up.  It's the nature of the Internet."

- Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

"Napster creator ponders his legacy" by Nick Wingfield, October 1, 2002.