Sunday, September 11, 2005

Social Engineering

Where do people get their ideas? And why don't they leave the more anti-social ones there? I noticed spam in comments on a blog the other day - and not just one. I thought again about turning comments off on my blog but before I made the decision, I saw Blogger was promoting their comment validation option which, when activated, means commenters have to enter/mirror a word randomly generated by Blogger to be able to post. Problem solved! But it does make you wonder why people spend their days creating new ways to spam.
Back to "social engineering" - it's any behaviour designed to get wetware (that's us) to do things we're probably not supposed to - like being phished out of our credit card details - or identities.

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