Mostly curiosity. Have you read Kevin Mitnick's books? Many hackers start from magic tricks. Magic is basically exploiting a glitch in people's attention. It do

Mostly curiosity. Have you read Kevin Mitnick's books? Many hackers start from magic tricks. Magic is basically exploiting a glitch in people's attention. It doesn't seem like it works, and it's fascinating how consistent you can get it. Social engineering is an extension of this. People make the same mistakes consistently. So many people believe that correct horse battery staple trick, and there's even a generator for it that you can utilise it for dictionary attacks. Many people use root or admin as their login. But how many? There's a trick I did once in a game, where there were preset images in a dropdown. These images would actually point to a url and pass that to the server. But you could inspect element and type whatever URL you like. This trick is fun the first time, but every time I see this pattern, I try to see if it works.