The power of chocolate.

[Raion]

Why don't we make our own survey and call up people and see how many give up their passwords for chocolate

[TheSpecialist]

Pieces of candy? Gezz...

Susan was a textbook example of a maladjusted girl. She'd been mistreated as a kid, but was of the survivor kind. She became a prostitute as early as her teens, and earned her living working LA brothels. On her time off, she was a groupie, fraternizing with various rock bands. She discovered how easy it was to get backstage passes for concerts just by calling up the right people and pretending to be, for example, a secretary at a record company. She became an active phreaker at the very end of the 70's, and was naturally an expert at social engineering.

Soon, she hooked up with a couple of guys named Ron and Kevin Mitnick, both notorious hackers, later to be arrested for breaking into the computers of various large corporations. Susan's specialty was attacking military computer systems, which gave her a sense of power. To reach her objectives, she could employ methods that would be unthinkable for male hackers: she sought out various military personnel and went to bed with them. Later, while they were sleeping, she could go through their clothes for usernames and passwords. (Many people kept these written down on pieces of paper in order to remember them). Susan therefore hacked so that she could feel a sense of power or influence in this world, despite her hopeless social predicament. For her, hacking was a way to increase her self-esteem.

[powertoad5000]

http://bash.org/?281238

[thehorse13]

This is quite funny yet sad at the same time. For those purists who frown on social engineering, you better think it over...

http://internetweek.com/security02/s...cleID=18902094

[MrLinus]

Merged TheHorse13's post in with this one.