As a pentester you’d likely get an OK from the client on which methods were acceptable. Can you phish, etc. An exec would hire you to test their company and you

As a pentester you’d likely get an OK from the client on which methods were acceptable. Can you phish, etc. An exec would hire you to test their company and you still wouldn’t have carte blanche on methods. I assume you didn’t just YOLO random companies that you thought would be good for your security paper. Full disclosure: I’ve listened to at least 20 episodes of Darknet Diaries. I’m basically already in your network. ;)