Social Engineering 😈

When the security issue is not on the tech side

Martin Thoma
6 min readFeb 25, 2024

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Social Engineering is the art of manipulating people. It’s not necessarily illegal, for example when children fake being sick so that they don’t have to go to school.

Social Engineers are also not doing anything illegal when they apply elicitation: A subtle form of getting information through normal conversations. Think…

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Martin Thoma

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