OT: Social Engineering (was Re: [plug] Computer insecurity)

[ThomasA at wa.switch.aust.com]

Traditionally, the short version:

- social engineer:  one who is employed to accomplish the ideals invoked by
social engineering.  eg:  beefy looking train security officer
- social engineering:  the act of persistantly reforming an individual to
become socially accepted.  eg:  beefy looking train security officer using
his batton to correct the actions of those disrupting the peace.

Regards,

André Thomas
Network Systems Administrator
US&S Canning Vale, Western Australia.

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Peter Write thus said:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:05:51PM +0800, Simon Scott wrote:
> Social Engineering is still, and probably always will be, the most
> successful form of security breach.

Define "most successful".

...at least the way you're using it in the above sentence.

(for that matter, what you do you define as "social engineering"?)

Pete.
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