> Point 13: Dale Carnegie. > > Response 13: Fuck that. The person who recommended most for me to read this book was a total asshole, and frankly manipulating p

> Point 13: Dale Carnegie. > > Response 13: Fuck that. The person who recommended most for me to read this book was a total asshole, and frankly manipulating people is not going to improve your technical abilities. With emphasis: > manipulating people is not going to improve your technical abilities Citation needed. Software was written by and for people. If you can figure out how to trick people, you can use this knowledge to figure out what assumptions an application's developer makes and leverage this advantage to find areas where their logic is flawed. You might uncover vulnerabilities that nobody else has found this way. And since the post is about computer security, this is incredibly important and useful.