'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst the bosses got the larger westside homes in Handside. This sort of social engineering, including the absence of a pub, would not be acceptable today.
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
