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Subject:	Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:37:24 GMT
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I think Todd got "played". (And I recently said I didn't think Todd was easy to fool) Social Engineering my foot. If that was what MM was up to, it has no place here. But I don't think it was, I think it was just another layer of deception. This guy is amazingly deep and amazingly twisted. Now, I do think that helping people out with things like spelling hygiene and how to ask questions and where stuff is and so forth is worthy and could possibly be construed as SE. But I don't think it is. If it was I'd be against it and I'm not so it must not be. :-) Sorry for that, it sounded funny when I typed it. But my UK flight is about to be called so I gotta be terse. ++Lar

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		Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
This is tough but I think its a worthy discussion... (...) With all due respect to Todd, I think Larry is right to an extent. I told Todd in a private E-mail that I thought MM was mostly full of it. MM thinks very highly of himself and I would be (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
(...) Actually, that's something I considered when speaking to Matthew offline. I think my conclusion on the issue is that Matthew's approach (I.E. causing disruptions, etc) is a very fast, effective way of doing it. However, it causes unfortunate (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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