Social Engineering 101: Mitnick and other hackers show how it's done
First Clipped on Jul. 21, 2008
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As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of social engineering--manipulating people into doing what you want, such as giving out passwords and other information that unlocks sensitive information on networks.
