The B3TA Detective AgencyUniversalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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I believe it's referred to as 'social engineering'. I've a mate in the pen testing game - and while he's done many, many rather interesting things, I'm not sure he's ever been so brazen as to simply ask the web admin for the passwords...
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 17:19,
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"The art of deception"by Kevin Mitnick (I think) is a pretty good read. It's all about social engineering, and how he was portrayed as a technical hacker (and subsiquently locked up for 8 years with no trial), when in reality all he did was trick people into giving him passwords.
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