social engineering

Alright, so dear reader the first question you might have is "what is social engineering?". Social engineering is, to put it simply, the art and science of getting people to comply with your wishes. While this might sound fairly underhanded, you preform this type of social engineering every day of your life. If your a girl, for example, and you flirt with a cop to get out of a ticket, that's social engineering.

There are two types of social engineering and the first one i will discuses is the product of corporate world and involves attempts to retrieve information. This is the security branch of social engineering. Like all "hacking" these techniques use weakness in existing secure networks and exploit them, much like a lock pick will find weaknesses in a lock and exploit them to gain access to a building. There are many ways social engineers go about this and many of them are illegal, just a fair warning in case you want to try any of them out.

Another form of social engineering is political social engineering, in which a government attempts to control society and push in in one direction or another. examples of this are prohibitions on drugs, murder and rape. Understanding how and why the government enacts laws and why, as well as how effective those prohibitions are.

All of these are going to be discussed on this blog in the next couple of weeks and after that time I will be moving on to different political philosophy's