Talk:Social engineering

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Examples[edit]

Are the examples provided really social engineering? Dumpster diving is just another way of exploiting human weakness, but there aren't really any social aspects to it. Similarly the malicious attachment example has some aspects of social engineering as the cracker has to get the user to implicitly trust them and execute the attachmet, but for a self-propagating virus, it's not as clear.

...Infosecurity survey 90% of office workers gave away their password in exchange for a cheap pen.

Is that a correct falue, I mean did they check if i was the right password or just some bogus people made up.

Does anyone have any information about social engineering as it was used in 1950s adverts of General Electrics?

Few small problems[edit]

I think that social engineering needs to have at *least* 1 more page on it...the psychological factor. There also seems to be a negative bias on both of these articles thusfar. Not all social engineering is bad. In certain scenerios it can be used to help somebody (improving self esteem, anyone?).

If I edit them, I'll prolly do it later.

Patrick Flynn 07:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

maybe I'm missing something but why is this part of wikiproject California? last time I check social engineering was a global thing....

You are missing somethings so I'll fill you in. "Large scale" does not always mean "global" --125.60.248.139 (talk) 18:23, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]