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gizaOkay, I'm getting tired of people sending me IMs from screennames that I have never heard from before that say "Hi, this is so and so. This is my new screen name!"
I do not reply to such messages. Period. Why? Because it is WAY too easy to engage in Social Engineering. Social Engineering is also known as the art of bullshitting people to get information out of them. Heck, Kevin Mitnick did a great job of getting into systems that he wasn't supposed to be in simply by using social engineering.
Then there is this recent case where a basketball player from USC was duped into thinking that he was talking to a student from UCLA named "Victora" who said she wanted to party with him. Imagine the look of surprise on his face at the subsequent basketball where people in stands held signs with his phone number and passed out copies of chatlogs.
Remember: trust, but verify.
I do not reply to such messages. Period. Why? Because it is WAY too easy to engage in Social Engineering. Social Engineering is also known as the art of bullshitting people to get information out of them. Heck, Kevin Mitnick did a great job of getting into systems that he wasn't supposed to be in simply by using social engineering.
Then there is this recent case where a basketball player from USC was duped into thinking that he was talking to a student from UCLA named "Victora" who said she wanted to party with him. Imagine the look of surprise on his face at the subsequent basketball where people in stands held signs with his phone number and passed out copies of chatlogs.
Remember: trust, but verify.