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There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
Frank Abagnale / Consultant
Technology
Defeated
Engineering
Social
Social Engineering
Today
Cannot
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It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Jaron Lanier / Writer
Technology
Engaging
Engineering
Impossible
Information
Information Technology
Social
Social Engineering
Also
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Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Code
Engineering
Social Engineering
Vehicle
Tax
Tax Code
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I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
Frank Abagnale / Consultant
Engineering
Fbi
Social Engineering
Taught
Box
Deal
Outside
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper / Philosopher
Technology
Engineering
Social
Social Engineering
Beyond
Physical
Province
Regarding
Resembles
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A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
Car
Engineering
Leaving
Pavement
Simple
Social Engineering
Drive
Close
Door
Driver
Hack
Involve
Thumb
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Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
Average
Engineering
Hackers
Social
Social Engineering
Successful
More
Become
Hacker
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A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
Access
Combination
Data
Engineering
Social
Social Engineering
Else
Gain
Hacker
High-Tech
Uses
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The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
Kevin Mitnick / Consultant
Access
Engineering
Information
Keys
Social
Social Engineering
Person
Gain
Hacker
Influencing
Network
Something
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'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.
Barton Gellman / Journalist
Digital
Engineering
Fancy
Social Engineering
Spooky
Term
Secrets
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The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.
Stockwell Day / Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Government
Engineering
Fabric
Government Spending
Past
Social Engineering
Spending
Undisciplined
Tearing
Undermined
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I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
Engineering
Nice
Opening
School
Social Engineering
Life I Am Will
Ring
Beyond
Bring
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Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.
Kevin Mitnick / Consultant
Access
Attachment
Computer
Convince
Deception
Engineering
Influence
Manipulation
Social Engineering
Click
System
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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul / Former U.s. Representative
Marriage
Bureaucrats
Engineering
Hostile
Judging
Liberty
Officials
Social
Social Engineering
Act
Definition
Federal
Impose
Judges
Profoundly
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Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.
Marshall Herskovitz / Film Director
Children
Engineering
Hey
Social Engineering
Television Commercials
Automatic
Commercials
Declare
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The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
America
Changed
Construction
Engineering
Massive
Social Engineering
Clearly
Complex
Elaborate
Project
Physical
Suburban
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We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.
Joseph Nye / Political Scientist
Danger
Diverse
Engineering
Nations
Social Engineering
Build
World Live Know
Cultures
Grave
Pose
Visions
We Cannot
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Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.
Kevin Mitnick / Consultant
Able
Appropriate
Engineering
Hybrid
Social
Social Engineering
Attacks
Played
Big Part
Exploited
Vulnerabilities
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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.
John Mcafee / Computer Programmer
Trust
Competent
Engineering
Hacking
Social
Social Engineering
Technique
Today
Trust Me
White
Aside
Engineer
Hat
Purely
Reasonably
Tool
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Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.
Kevin Mitnick / Consultant
Action
Benefits
Deception
Engineering
Influence
Manipulation
Organization
Release
Request
Social
Social Engineering
Trusted
Person
Within
Perform
Comply
Insider
Item
Some
Using
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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.
Grant Shapps /
Absence
Acceptable
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Factories
Garden
Social Engineering
Bosses
Homes
Placed
Planned
Pub
Whilst
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Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.
Robert Dallek / Historian
Comfortable
Engineering
Epitome
Grandiose
Johnson
President Obama
Social Engineering
Too Much
Vietnam
Obama
Conservatives
Criticized
Denounce
Failed
Model
Imitate
Reforms
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
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