Social engineering : : how crowdmasters, phreaks, hackers, and trolls created a new form of manipulative communication / / Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson.

• Superior document: The MIT Press
• VerfasserIn: Gehl, Robert W.,; Lawson, Sean T., 1977-
• TeilnehmendeR: Lawson, Sean T., 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : The MIT Press,, [2022]
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The MIT Press Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 328 pages)

"From the phone phreaks of the 1970s to Anonymous, how how hackers deploy persuasion, helpfulness, manipulation, and deception to gain access to sensitive information"--

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Emergence of Masspersonal Social Engineering
• Why "Social Engineering" Is a Good Label
• On Social Engineering
• On Masspersonal Communication
• Masspersonal Social Engineering
• Plan of the Book
• I Engineering the Social
• 1 Crowdmasters: The Rise and Fall of Mass Social Engineering, 1920-1976
• Engineering Society
• Social Reformers
• Managerialist Social Engineers
• Public Relations and the Mass Social Engineers
• "Social Engineering" Becomes a Pejorative
• Conclusion
• 2 Phreaks and Hackers: The Rise of Interpersonal Social Engineering, 1976-Present
• Intellectual Roots of Hacker Social Engineering
• The Phone Phreaks
• Phreaking and Hacking via Social Engineering
• Hacker Social Engineering as Interpersonal Communication
• Relating Mass and Interpersonal Social Engineering
• Conclusion
• II The Social Engineering Process
• 3 Trashing: From Dumpster Diving to Data Dumps
• What Makes Social Engineering Trashing Possible?
• Making a Trash Society: Sanitary Engineering and Mass Social Engineering
• A Philosophy of Garbage
• In the Dumpster
• The Digital Dumpster
• Trashing in the Digital Dumpster
• Conclusion: Surveys, Dumpster Diving, and OSINT
• 4 Pretexting: Recognizing the Mitnick Mythology
• Hacker Pretexting
• Mass Social Engineering Pretexts
• The "World's Most Famous Hacker"
• Theories of Identity Play
• Recognizing Mitnick's Pretexting Successes: Structural Factors
• Social Engineering and Stereotyping
• Conclusion
• 5 Bullshitting: Deception, Friendliness, and Accuracy
• On Bullshit with the Phone Phreaks
• Bullshitting the Operator: Best Practices
• Bullshitting in Hacker Social Engineering
• Bullshit among the Mass Social Engineers
• Conclusion
• 6 Penetrating: The Desire to Control Media and Minds.
• Interpersonal Penetration Metaphor: Sexual Conquest
• Professional Penetration
• Mass Social Engineering Metaphors: Bullets
• Media Penetration by the Numbers
• Penetrating Us for Our Own Good?
• Conclusion
• III Masspersonal Social Engineering
• 7 Contemporary Masspersonal Social Engineering
• The Social Engineering Process
• Masspersonal Social Engineering Cases: Russia and Cambridge Analytica
• Masspersonal Social Engineering since 2016
• Conclusion
• 8 Conclusion: Ameliorating Masspersonal Social Engineering
• Is Masspersonal Social Engineering Effective?
• Can Masspersonal Social Engineering Be Ethical?
• What to Do about Masspersonal Social Engineering?