I just want to point you out to a book. It is a good read, I promise. http://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-The-Human-Hacking/dp/0470639539 http://www.amazo

I just want to point you out to a book. It is a good read, I promise. http://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-The-Human-Hacking/dp/0470639539 http://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-The-Human-Hacking/d... It looks like you genuinely believe that two people talking face to face would not be subjected to exploitation. The book exactly talks about how exploitation in this context had been thriving even before Computer and Network Security became a thing. In computer setting, an adversary still needs to do factorization to crack keys or priming the victim's computing machinery, both of which require advanced knowledge in science and technologies mind you, to do the exploits. But for people, they come with beliefs, cultural and social biases, personal habits, and ignorance which are not too hard to discern, making human factor in systems a larger risk.