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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Alan Glasser <alanglasser@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Two anecdotes
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:08:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_Q9RTGUsZ9d4zOaJL7qbk5SFHUYYctUCvUqLLQp8e2Mdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC840092-F195-4C3D-886B-1370D80BAFC5@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:11 PM Alan Glasser <alanglasser@gmail.com> wrote:


> There was always social engineering, like Rob mentioned


Me, after a pentesting company had given $EMPLOYER their shpiel:  "And do
you use social engineering?"

"No, we never do that."

"Whyever not?"

"Because it *always* works, so we don't learn anything."

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-20  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-19 22:41 Alan Glasser
2021-11-20  0:54 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-20  1:30   ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-20  2:08     ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-20  2:48       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-11-20  3:08       ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-11-20 10:12       ` Ralph Corderoy
2021-11-21  2:05   ` Larry McVoy

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