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So What I Was Essentially Doing Was, I Compromised The Confidentiality Of Their Proprietary Software To Advance My Agenda Of Becoming The Best At Breaking Through The Lock.

A Company Can Spend Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars On Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems And Encryption And Other Security Technologies, But If An Attacker Can Call One Trusted Person Within The Company, And That Person Complies, And If The Attacker Gets In, Then All That Money Spent On Technology Is Essentially Wasted.

I Can Go Into Linkedin And Search For Network Engineers And Come Up With A List Of Great Spear-phishing Targets Because They Usually Have Administrator Rights Over The Network. Then I Go Onto Twitter Or Facebook And Trick Them Into Doing Something, And I Have Privileged Access.

I Think It Goes Back To My High School Days. In Computer Class, The First Assignment Was To Write A Program To Print The First 100 Fibonacci Numbers. Instead, I Wrote A Program That Would Steal Passwords Of Students. My Teacher Gave Me An A.

It Doesn't Work The Same Way Everywhere. The Americans Are The Most Gullible, Because They Don't Like To Deny Co-workers' Requests. People In The Former Soviet Bloc Countries Are Less Trusting, Perhaps Because Of Their Previous Experiences With Their Countries' Secret Services.