X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: roadraat AT aol DOT com (Nelson Fleet) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: could you please compile this? Date: 20 Feb 2002 12:04:39 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 41 Message-ID: <86e34513.0202201204.2f97f2b@posting.google.com> References: <20020219100219 DOT 66362 DOT qmail AT web20807 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.249.92.99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1014235480 29485 127.0.0.1 (20 Feb 2002 20:04:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2002 20:04:40 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com cesar tejeda wrote in message news:<20020219100219 DOT 66362 DOT qmail AT web20807 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>... > BTW, What is social engineering? > Why this e-mail sounds you like that? > > :-? It's jargon from computer security and criminal hacking. It's a fancy term for fooling people into doing what you want. If you were trying to break into something, you might try to crack the password. That's hard. Or you might try to reverse engineer the authentication software. That's also hard. However, if you call somebody in your target and pose as someone from the help desk, you might convince them that you're working on the system and talk them into just giving you their password. That's social engineering. One of the prettier (albeit nefarious) social engineering malicious pranks was the virus that wasn't a virus. Somebody sent out email warning people that they might be infected and admonished them to delete the virus if they found it on their system. Except... it wasn't a virus. It was a system utility, which disabled certain functionality when the victims deleted it. That's social engineering. There was no virus. The vandal simply talked the ignorant into damaging their own machines. It really was as stupid as that joke about the Amish virus ("since we, the Amish, don't have computers you are on your honor to delete all of your files...thank you"). Nobody is going to compile your code for you. You might have written your own virus, chum. Then when we compile and execute it, we're toast. If it's not a virus, great. Do your own homework. If you can't download and install a C compiler, you don't have the personal resources to program in C anyway. Nelson