week3:what's the social engineering?

week3 : What's the "social engineering?"


The deffinition of "social engineering" is that an outside hacker’s use of mental tricks on legitimate users of a computer system, in order to obtain information he needs to gain access to the system or that getting needed information (for example, a password) from a person rather than breaking into a system. Social engineering can be any and all of these things, depending upon where we sit.
In other words, engineering is generally a hacker’s clever manipulation of the natural human tendency to trust. The hacker’s goal is to get information that will allow him/her to gain unauthorized access to a system which has value and the information that resides on that system.
Before I red the word on the assignment's page, I had never heard the word "social engineering". So, I researched the word, and was really surprised. I had an image that hacker is very clever person, but I thought so again though I know they're doing not good things. They are not only good at using machines and information, but also good at handling or controlling people's mind! But I think it is smart way to try to get through minds ; not through systems if hacker want to do it. it's because the technique will get higher and higher, and stronger and stronger. So it will be difficult more and more to get through systems. However, the mind won't change or get stronger so much because human keep having week points in mind which not depend on the progress of technology.
I don't think I can, but I'd like to know how to do it someday because I might understand human's mind more if I could understand the method!