• juliebean
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    8 months ago

    i don’t get it. what would be the goal of this if it was social engineering?

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      8 months ago

      Sometimes security questions for various accounts are literally “what is your favorite color” etc.

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        8 months ago

        oh, you meant social engineering in the sense used in security, not the sense used in political science.