Social Engineering Bypasses All Technologies, Including Firewalls.

For The Average Home-user, Anti-virus Software Is A Must.

Social Engineering Is Using Manipulation, Influence And Deception To Get A Person, A Trusted Insider Within An Organization, To Comply With A Request, And The Request Is Usually To Release Information Or To Perform Some Sort Of Action Item That Benefits That Attacker.

You Can Never Protect Yourself 100%. What You Do Is Protect Your Self As Much As Possible And Mitigate Risk To An Acceptable Degree. You Can Never Remove All Risk.

My Argument Is Not That I Shouldn't Have Been Punished, But That The Punishment Didn't Fit The Crime.

I'm Still A Hacker. I Get Paid For It Now. I Never Received Any Monetary Gain From The Hacking I Did Before. The Main Difference In What I Do Now Compared To What I Did Then Is That I Now Do It With Authorization.