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The description needs to be clear that this site is not for discussion of social engineering as a political science discipline. – William Jul 8 '10 at 10:34

<comments removed> If you have any questions or comments about this proposal, please use 'create new discussion' below. Thanks. – Robert Cartaino♦ May 17 at 16:08

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37 Example Questions (8 closed)

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up vote 24 down vote

added by Adam Davis Jun 10 '10 at 3:00

be friendly :) ..always works for me :) – warren Jul 14 '10 at 13:36

up vote 22 down vote

added by Adam Davis Jun 10 '10 at 2:55

up vote 22 down vote

added by Adam Davis Jun 10 '10 at 3:02

Yeah, share the codewords ppl. :)Great example. – glebm Nov 24 '10 at 3:15

up vote 20 down vote

added by Jonathan Sampson Jun 10 '10 at 2:36

up vote 20 down vote

added by gbroiles Jul 2 '10 at 7:28

up vote 20 down vote

added by DVK, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:37

good question.. sadly I'm out of "on-topic" votes :( – warren Jul 26 '10 at 12:55

@warren: here, have one of mine ;) – Shawn Chin Aug 11 '10 at 15:41

up vote 13 down vote

added by Adam Davis Jun 10 '10 at 2:59

somewhat subjective, but I like the question. – Maxim Zaslavsky Jun 11 '10 at 19:06

up vote 13 down vote

added by gbroiles Jul 2 '10 at 7:26

up vote 11 down vote

added by gbroiles Jul 2 '10 at 7:27

up vote 8 down vote

added by David Wiggins Jul 15 '10 at 1:51

I think that in a wiki'd context, this has promise – warren Jul 15 '10 at 1:52

up vote 7 down vote

added by gbroiles Jul 2 '10 at 7:25

up vote 6 down vote

added by phq Jul 3 '10 at 23:19

up vote 6 down vote

added by William Jul 7 '10 at 11:39

up vote 4 down vote

added by Willbill Jul 9 '10 at 1:16

@Willbill .. could you please retitle your question? I don't understand what you're trying to ask :) – warren Jul 15 '10 at 1:52

up vote 3 down vote

added by Robert Harvey Jun 22 '10 at 23:33

up vote 2 down vote

added by Mark Rogers, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:25

up vote 1 down vote

added by Mark Rogers, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:31

up vote 1 down vote

added by Mark Rogers, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:29

up vote 0 down vote

added by William Jul 7 '10 at 11:34

closed as off topic by Arda Xi, warren, ptrfdr, LessPop_MoreFizz, Edgar Nov 26 '10 at 7:05

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote 0 down vote

added by Willbill Jul 9 '10 at 1:17

closed as off topic by warren, qbi, ssakl, user16812, Rixius Aug 24 '10 at 16:37

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

	This was an attempt to capitalise on the possible misinterpretation of "Social Engineering" – Willbill Jul 9 '10 at 1:24
	This is more a question for Stackoverflow. – qbi Jul 18 '10 at 23:49
	Well, if you were to actually see the kind of data that is available using the fb api, you'd be surprised. Once someone becomes your friend, you can go back and read all their status messages since the time they joined Facebook, Its a pain doing it through the interface but using the api its very convenient. Seems like a valid question, but, I can see why someone would think otherwise. – DMin Aug 17 '10 at 12:09
	I agree with you that asking some questions about the use of the face-book api in connection to social engineering would be valid, however in this this case, I was referring to technical question of asking how to do a specific action with the api. If it were something more like what "What is the best way to extract information about someone using the face-book API" I would agree with you/ – Willbill Aug 17 '10 at 12:43

up vote 0 down vote

added by DMin, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:34

up vote 0 down vote

added by Mark Rogers Jan 12 '11 at 17:59

closed as off topic by Rory Alsop, M28, Dori, Traroth, Olli Mar 10 '11 at 11:01

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote 0 down vote

added by Xeon06 Feb 16 '11 at 23:09

up vote 0 down vote

added by Rory Alsop, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Mar 19 '11 at 19:00

up vote 0 down vote

added by Rory Alsop Mar 13 '11 at 20:12

up vote 0 down vote

added by Am1rr3zA, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Apr 15 '11 at 18:56

Finger protocol. – WikiSpeedia hang-around Apr 15 '11 at 18:57

up vote -1 down vote

added by Jonathan Sampson Jun 10 '10 at 2:37

closed as off topic by Robert Harvey, David Thornley, Lars Andren, William, Willbill Jul 9 '10 at 1:10

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

There's a presumption that the OP already knows the answer, since they knew enough to know that it might be on-topic here. Thus, this is a great example of an edge-case, off-topic question. – Robert Harvey Jun 10 '10 at 3:55

Instead of "Who is...", how about "What did KM do, and how did he do it?" Yeah, I'll add that... – AviD Jun 10 '10 at 8:24

up vote -1 down vote

added by William Jul 8 '10 at 10:30

closed as off topic by David Thornley, Willbill, David Wiggins, Christian, warren Jul 19 '10 at 2:45

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote -1 down vote

added by Olli Mar 10 '11 at 11:03

up vote -2 down vote

added by Willbill Jul 9 '10 at 1:19

closed as off topic by warren, Kaji, Gilles, Soulseekah, BenV Jan 21 '11 at 20:31

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote -2 down vote

added by lathomas64, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:35

	Sry, I said 'not a good example" because I feel the question could be more specific and have more context. – Mark Rogers Jan 12 '11 at 17:54
	This is too vague. – Soulseekah Jan 15 '11 at 10:27

up vote -2 down vote

added by Rory Alsop, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:32

Hmmm - why offtopic? The research phase of a social engineering piece of work is often key. Understanding the target dramatically increases your likelihood of success. – Rory Alsop Jan 17 '11 at 18:53

up vote -4 down vote

added by Mark Rogers Jan 13 '11 at 23:17

up vote -5 down vote

added by AviD Jun 10 '10 at 8:25

A little vague. How did he succeed with what? – Omni5cience Jul 5 '10 at 21:30

Mitnick's exploits and shenanigians are well known. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick – AviD Jul 6 '10 at 20:49

up vote -7 down vote

added by DMin, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 20 '11 at 17:35

closed as off topic by William, Ilari Kajaste, AviD, ptrfdr, sp0rus Sep 11 '10 at 17:43

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Some would argue Christianity is social engineering! Interesting question but I think it would come down to debates about personal belief and would be off topic. – William Aug 26 '10 at 3:24

I thought of this as an off topic example as well. Within the topic, but not relevant to define off-topic examples. – DMin Aug 26 '10 at 4:43