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social engineering
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n. Term used among crackers and samurai for cracking techniques that rely
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on weaknesses in wetware rather than software; the aim is to trick people
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into revealing passwords or other information that compromises a target
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system's security. Classic scams include phoning up a mark who has the
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required information and posing as a field service tech or a fellow employee
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with an urgent access problem. See also the tiger team story in the patch
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entry, and rubber-hose cryptanalysis.
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