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To: zeugma
Social Engineering can be an art form all its own, but it is not really 'hacking' in the negative sense.

Oh its most defiantly hacking but its not at all technical. I think the attitude many system architects have about social engineering being not all that much of a worry causes huge problems for business..

keep in mind hacking is not really a negative term some people are paid good money for a blackbox hack by the people who want to secure their systems.

45 posted on 01/31/2006 12:40:51 PM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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To: N3WBI3
I think the attitude many system architects have about social engineering being not all that much of a worry causes huge problems for business..

Absolutely agreed. It's much harder to engineer people than devices though :-)

keep in mind hacking is not really a negative term some people are paid good money for a blackbox hack by the people who want to secure their systems.

Absolutely. I've done some of that myself against systems I'm responsible for. You really have to look at security from both sides in order to understand all sides of the issues.

47 posted on 01/31/2006 1:49:20 PM PST by zeugma (Muslims are varelse...)
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