Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it isn't hacking. Hacking isn't pretending to be someone and making a phone call. It's usually piracy or hardware and software modding.
I'm well aware of how effect social engineering can be, but there is a difference between the two.
Please, learn the history behind the terms you are using, especially if you are using them wrongly.
It's sad that even nearly 30 years after the term got it's pejorative meaning created by media and we still use it that way. Maybe it will sound surprising, my dear friend, but those 'evil hackers' created the internet you know, they even, gasp, created the OS you use, Bill Gates himself was considered a hacker in the 70s, Linus is a hacker. The term was created by people from MIT who were behind free software movement and originally meant
"a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular."
The people you think about ? The ones doing piracy and those that DDoS for lulz or use bruteforce password generators? They are called crackers and script kiddies respectively. Completely different thing.
Now of course, the people who breach computer security are considered hackers these days, but they rarely are even remotely concerned about things like piracy, they look for information, secrets, and every bit of non-public data.
