How hackers hack you using simple social engineering [video]

Re:How hackers hack you using simple social engineering [video] by louprado on Saturday June 25, 2016 @04:15PM (#11977799)

While I am not an artist, I always had a distaste for the phrase "scam artist". It didn't seem appropriate to elevate someone who commits fraud to the level of "artist".

But my hope was the phrase would shift out of the professions entirely. And certainly not into my own profession.

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Re:How hackers hack you using simple social engineering [video] by khedoros on Saturday June 25, 2016 @06:52PM (#11978389)

"Engineered" and "artistic" seem apt descriptions of parts of the scam: the skillful, creative, and well though out parts. Just like "criminal" and "scammer" address the other side of the same activities.

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Re:How hackers hack you using simple social engineering [video] by louprado on Sunday June 26, 2016 @01:56AM (#11979584)

Engineering is applied math and science. Hard science mind you.

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Re:How hackers hack you using simple social engineering [video] by khedoros on Sunday June 26, 2016 @03:30PM (#11982263)

That's one sense of the word. There are others. I was thinking of "the action of working artfully to bring something about".

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Re:How hackers hack you using simple social engineering [video] by wallace_f on Sunday June 26, 2016 @01:39AM (#11979549)

It does seem to be a euphemism, one used to paint scammers in a better light. Remember, 10 years ago we were calling social engineering hackers scammers and con men.

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