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Looks like the social-engineering form of privilege escalation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escala
by xsmasher 14y ago
Looks like the social-engineering form of privilege escalation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_escalation
- tomp 14y agoI always imagined "social engineering" as using some sleazy tactics that rely on exploiting emotions of the people with access, e.g. calling the lonely clerk at the phone a "sweetie" and commenting on her beauty/softness of her voice, or giving some gambling tips/bonus to the gambling junkie clerk, or so. This, on the other hand, was simply following procedure. No social "engineering" here.
- _phred 14y ago"Oh, shoot, I have so many credit cards... is it this one? This one? This one?" Seeming clueless when doing malicious things is unquestionably a form of social engineering.