#engineering

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. ↗

— Gordon Moore

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I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail. ↗

— Jon Johansen

#basically #community #doomed #engineering #fail

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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