My question, in a nutshell: Did you know that you were going to get caught?
I guess what I'm most curious about is whether you knew the risks and took them anyway, or whether you thought you were covering your tracks and that the risks were minimal. It would be interesting to know if you knew you'd eventually get busted or whether you thought you were relatively "safe" from discovery.
"'At the time, I didn't believe I was going to get caught. I looked at it as very benign and trivial and more of a pain in the butt,' he said. 'When they started to enact federal laws against computer hacking I continued in that mindset' without realizing the seriousness of the activity and its potential consequences.'" - Kevin Mitnick, paragraph 14
So, from what I can tell, no, he didn't consider or wasn't aware of the risks he was taking; but this paragraph is repeating the last one.
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
-- G.K. Chesterton
Did you know you'd get caught? (Score:5, Interesting)
I guess what I'm most curious about is whether you knew the risks and took them anyway, or whether you thought you were covering your tracks and that the risks were minimal. It would be interesting to know if you knew you'd eventually get busted or whether you thought you were relatively "safe" from discovery.
Here's Your Answer, from the Article... (Score:1)
So, from what I can tell, no, he didn't consider or wasn't aware of the risks he was taking; but this paragraph is repeating the last one.