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Once again, the media trying to pass someone with social engineering skills as a hacker. You might as well call it Lying engineering, those people are just good
by aortega 5y ago
Once again, the media trying to pass someone with social engineering skills as a hacker. You might as well call it Lying engineering, those people are just good at lying and manipulation, for me, hacking is another entirely different activity.
Also she ratted on Mitnick, those people are called informants, not hackers.
- wjnc 5y agoFor me the anarchist in 'the anarchist cookbook' and newsletters that were spread via BBS and early internet capture the hacker (as in 'hacker news') spirit quite spot on. Haven't we come full circle with social engineering being one of the main digital crimes? A good pentester has good social engineering skills. I expect a 'hacker' not to have too much in common with a 'con man', but a 'con man' with technical skills or interests seems to fit with 'hacker'? It's all loose categorization based on stereotypes anyways.
- aortega 5y ago>A good pentester has good social engineering skills. There is a difference between a pentester and a con man. A con man with technical skills is still a con man. A hacker is more similar to a modern-day wizard commanding computers to do his bidding.
- geocrasher 5y agoRight. The pentester gets the money up front.
- Dah00n 5y agoMitnick using social skills to get a pincode for a door is also hacking even though he didn't need use any computer commanding skills.
- aortega 5y agoIIRC Mitnik is good at technical hacking, but mostly known for being a master at conning people. Not as good as the cops that got him, surely.
- radicalbyte 5y agoThat and the Jolly Roger Cookbook.. those were the days.
- goodpoint 5y ago
- reshie 5y agoit does fit a specific definition. it manipulates to get information. hacking manipulates software to get information they would not otherwise have access too as well.
- megapolitics 5y agoIt's perfectly possible to be both an informant and a hacker.