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socialengineering.com
23 October
2004
Idioms :: Technology
Social engineering (if you're not Josef Stalin) indicates the practice of manipulating people into opening up weaknesses in their own computers which would otherwise be protected. For example, your email application is smart enough not to automatically run an attached program that's sent to you — but if you're like the mass of humanity, you're not.
As they say, users are always the weak link in computer security. Not to mention in domain-name registration.
Originally noted Sep 22, 2004.