Why Hackers Don’t Always Need Code

Key Takeaways

I had a backdoor into this financial institutions' [music] entire data center. And this is root level access to to the entire network and every application they have. Once you got root on some system, it's a very interesting feeling. Uh uh do you believe most hackers [music] suffer from so-called god syndrome? There is a bit of that, for sure. Hackers tend to be more of a tool being used [music] by someone who actually understands the actual criminality of the thing that they're doing. The criminality and the cyber the crime [music] side of it is They understand this better than the CEOs of banks do. We are at the convergence of philosophy and hacking. Trust is to be vulnerable. And yet, vulnerability is the only path to trust. And understanding the level of vulnerability is ultimately what [music] can help to define the level of impact.