What was your introduction to SE?

brandonsskills · 11-12-2021, 04:03 PM

Was just curious when and how yall got introduced to SE as a skill. I mean, yah, you can say it is something you in essence practice throughout life to some degree, but when you figured out how you can actually apply social skills, charm and the like to benefit you, where were you and how did it happen? For me, personally, I had a buddy from a FB page we adminned together tell me about LeakForums, almost a decade ago now.

mothered · 11-12-2021, 04:16 PM

Personally, SEing Is a natural ability, but I Identified It as social engineering a little over 30 years ago.

DrangBrang · 11-12-2021, 05:46 PM

(11-12-2021, 04:03 PM)brandonsskills Wrote: Was just curious when and how yall got introduced to SE as a skill. I mean, yah, you can say it is something you in essence practice throughout life to some degree, but when you figured out how you can actually apply social skills, charm and the like to benefit you, where were you and how did it happen? For me, personally, I had a buddy from a FB page we adminned together tell me about LeakForums, almost a decade ago now.

after coming to this forum i decided to become a lawyer. IMa go to law school after i get my bach in poli science. But anyway, lets just say this site pushed me into becoming a lawayer, in some ways

mothered · 11-13-2021, 03:36 AM

(11-12-2021, 05:46 PM)DrangBrang Wrote: after coming to this forum i decided to become a lawyer.

Nice.

Lawyers do In fact use manipulative tactics by way of social engineering those In question.

Cannabis · 11-13-2021, 06:34 AM

I was introduced to SEing when yung Canna found a grey-hat site, and signed up to it at the ripe age of 13. Good times, learned how to do it well, but realized the amount of shit you can get into it, if you get caught. So I started a market for it.

DrangBrang · 11-13-2021, 09:26 PM

(11-13-2021, 03:36 AM)mothered Wrote:
(11-12-2021, 05:46 PM)DrangBrang Wrote: after coming to this forum i decided to become a lawyer.
Nice.

Lawyers do In fact use manipulative tactics by way of social engineering those In question.

yeah true...i hate the law but like the way they speak...link, i cant explain it!!

Shionari · 11-13-2021, 09:59 PM

Recently, I stumbled upon a book, "Ghost In The Wires" written by an allegedly very famous hacker called Kevin Mitnick, and I am currently reading it. It turns out that the book contains a lot of stories where the writer speaks of how he used social engineering to reach his goals.
This book was my introduction to social engineering. It seems like a really interesting topic, to be honest. I'm definitely gonna look to read more about it in the future. I'm thinking of checking out @mothered's website one of these days as well Tongue

mothered · 11-14-2021, 01:52 AM

(11-13-2021, 09:26 PM)DrangBrang Wrote: .i hate the law but like the way they speak...link, i cant explain it!!

I know what you mean.

Their terminology Is quite amazing.

GreatLimbo · 11-14-2021, 03:57 AM

My friend told me about refunding so I decided to give it a shot. I didn't know any better and DNAed a big ass 3k+ truck of a computer and immediately got refunded with no trouble or questions asked.

This lead me to believe things were very very easy to get away with which lead to losing a nice chunk of change and being very obvious with what I was trying to do. I had a customer support rep tell me once "Look, I know what you're trying to do. I understand completely. It's a nice try, I respect the hustle but it's not going to happen." All under my real name too. Sick stuff! Pretty hilarious to me now.

It's nice to get lucky now and again with something TOO easy but I always prepare properly whether I need it or not.