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		_7h4m on Jan 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twi... "evolving hacker techniques"? I'm pretty sure that these fancy tactics can be found in The Art of Deception, which was released in 2002. Social engineering is nothing new.

zimpenfish on Jan 31, 2014 [–]

They can probably be found in any writing since about when people discovered that manipulation and lying got them a warmer spot in the cave and a bigger slice of mammoth pie.

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