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The Art Of Hacking Human - Boomslang - 01-03-2014
Hello HC,
I write my observations about how people can be controlled and how their emotions being exploited.
I tried to adapt it to perspective of hacking. I hope you like it!
Lets start..
THE ART
OF
HACKING HUMAN
“Nothing is true; everything is permitted.”
OF
HACKING HUMAN
“Nothing is true; everything is permitted.”
Basic Emotions
RAGE: Anger, contempt, anger, wrath, fatigue, anger, anxiety, irritability, hatred, harassment, sensitivity, hostility, and extreme hatred and violence.SORROW: pain, grief, unhappy, gloom, melancholy, self-pity, loneliness, boredom, hopelessness and severe depression.
FEAR: worry, anxiety, irritability, mopes, marvel, suspicion, vigilance, remorse, anxiety, wince, wince, horror, phobia and panic.
PLEASURE: happiness, joy, relief, satisfaction, pleasure, joy, fun, pride, lust, excitement, love, contentment, rapture, euphoria, whimsy and extreme mania.
LOVE: acceptance, friendship, trust, kindness, pay close attention, loyalty, admiration, extreme passion, affection.
SHAME: guilt, embarrassment, frustration, regret, humiliation, anger, sorrow, suffering and repentance.
These are the cluster of basic emotions and sub-emotions beneath them.
You will use this to detect victim’s weakness.
Chapter-1: First Contact
First thing you need to control a person is contact to your victim and communicate with him. I developped a method for this purpose; named “Three Way Handshake”. It was inspired from “Transmission Control Protocol” which is used in infrastructure of the Internet. Set of operations to be performed is like this;
1) Attract Attention: Somehow, you need to attract your victim’s attention and meet with him.
2) Ask for Help: Ask your victim’s help to give the impression of that you trust him somehow.
3) Help: Help to your victim in some situation to gain your victim’s trust and respect.
Three Way Handshake
Attract Attention
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Ask for Help
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Help
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Chapter-2: Gathering Information
When you had the chance to get to know your victim, try to gather as much information as you can. Empathy your victim to see his perspective of life. Observe his reactions after different events. It may take a long time to gather these informations. You need to be patient. After you get all these information, analyze them and build an emotional character profile of your victim. When you’re able to predict every step of your victim, you’re ready to identify your victim’s weaknesses.
Chapter-3: Identifying Vulnerabilities
Human’s weakness comes from their extremism.
After you know your victim thoroughly, It is easy to identify their weaknesses.
Determine which emotion does your victim show excesses with (by help of "basic emotions") and exploit the vulnerability which that emotion brings.
a) Rage: If your victim gets angry quickly, you can use his anger against your enemies (by provoke victim), or if you want to harm the victim himself, you can use his anger to make him hurt himself or harm around to him.
b) Sorrow: This is the most vulnerable position of a humanbeing can be. A person in sorrow can reveal himself to you easily, even tell you his most important secrets which he didn’t tell anyone before. You can use this state to gather critique information about victim and use it as a trump card.
c) Fear: Most efficient way to control a person is using the fear factor. It can be a fear that comes with a direct thread or it can be a fear that comes with ethic values which victim is loyal to (ex: fear of social exclusion).
Victim will be willing to do anything you want if you use this factor.
d) Pleasure: If victim is extreme self-indulgent, you can control him easily by simply just gratify him (ex: giving bribe). Its most widespread vulnerability of humans. Also it can be more efficient if its used with “Fear” factor (ex: punishment-rewarding system).
e) Love: This is the most easy-to-use weakness. A person who is in love or extremely trust to somebody will do their requests without a question.
f) Shame: If the victim is extremely ashamed of something/someone, you can reduce your victim’s self-confidence by using this element of shame and turn his shame into fear. Then you can use the fear to control your victim.
Ending
To protect from “being controlled”, try not to overmuch any emotions to anyone. If you do, hide them from others like you're wearing an imaginary mask.
I hope you like this tutorial..
Au Revoir..
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - Ligeti - 01-03-2014
Very interesting indeed, I love the idea, I can't recall reading about this topic before... keep it up, it is truly interesting.
I don't want to sound "religious" but I myself when it comes to social engineering (and socializing in general) I highly consider the 7 deadly sins (and their combinations), I know... it sounds stupid somehow, anyway...
Where can I follow your progress for this "book"? (is it going to be a book?)
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - Ligeti - 01-03-2014
Very interesting indeed, I love the idea, I can't recall reading about this topic before... keep it up, it is truly interesting.
I don't want to sound "religious" but I myself when it comes to social engineering (and socializing in general) I highly consider the 7 deadly sins (and their combinations), I know... it sounds stupid somehow, anyway...
Where can I follow your progress for this "book"? (is it going to be a book?)
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - Boomslang - 01-04-2014
(01-03-2014, 10:49 PM)Ligeti Wrote: Very interesting indeed, I love the idea, I can't recall reading about this topic before... keep it up, it is truly interesting.
I don't want to sound "religious" but I myself when it comes to social engineering (and socializing in general) I highly consider the 7 deadly sins (and their combinations), I know... it sounds stupid somehow, anyway...
Where can I follow your progress for this "book"? (is it going to be a book?)
I'm not quite sure yet, I mean I don't have the experience to write a book but I'll share my observations like this. I totally want to hear your "7 deadly sins" theory.
I just read about 7 deadly sins and some other religious subjects. It's really interesting I'll mention them in my "book"
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - psyk0sis - 01-05-2014
Woman are actually pro hackers according to this article.
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - psyk0sis - 01-05-2014
Woman are actually pro hackers according to this article.
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - Boomslang - 01-05-2014
(01-05-2014, 09:44 AM)psyk0sis Wrote: Woman are actually pro hackers according to this article.
In a way, woman are able to attract man easily and exploit man's indulgence to get what they want.
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - Boomslang - 01-05-2014
(01-05-2014, 09:44 AM)psyk0sis Wrote: Woman are actually pro hackers according to this article.
In a way, woman are able to attract man easily and exploit man's indulgence to get what they want.
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - psyk0sis - 01-06-2014
(01-05-2014, 07:04 PM)RootTheSystem Wrote:(01-05-2014, 09:44 AM)psyk0sis Wrote: Woman are actually pro hackers according to this article.
In a way, woman are able to attract man easily and exploit man's indulgence to get what they want.
Well yeah, it's always good to keep beautiful women around to use as secret social-engineering agents.
RE: The Art Of Hacking Human - Ligeti - 01-06-2014
(01-06-2014, 08:56 AM)psyk0sis Wrote:(01-05-2014, 07:04 PM)RootTheSystem Wrote:(01-05-2014, 09:44 AM)psyk0sis Wrote: Woman are actually pro hackers according to this article.
In a way, woman are able to attract man easily and exploit man's indulgence to get what they want.
Well yeah, it's always good to keep beautiful women around to use as secret social-engineering agents.
lol, I wish it was as easy as you say, unless you pay big money of course (and nothing wrong with that IMHO)! OR.... you are Austin Power!!!