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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.

Both Social Engineering And Technical Attacks Played A Big Part In What I Was Able To Do. It Was A Hybrid. I Used Social Engineering When It Was Appropriate, And Exploited Technical Vulnerabilities When It Was Appropriate.

Choosing A Hard-to-guess, But Easy-to-remember Password Is Important!

It Was Used For Decades To Describe Talented Computer Enthusiasts, People Whose Skill At Using Computers To Solve Technical Problems And Puzzles Was - And Is - Respected And Admired By Others Possessing Similar Technical Skills.

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.