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social engineerA person who illegally enters computer systems by having persuaded an authorized person to reveal IDs, passwords and other confidential information. The social engineer is the "con man" of this business, taking the low-tech, human-to-human road rather than relying on programming skills. See social engineering and pretexting. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The common factor in both public and private morality thus seen is the State's role as ultimate judge and social engineer. While his contemporaries experimented with their role as social engineer, he chose to re-establish the Berlin block plan, a traditional option which became a counter-revolutionary deed. For several decades, Sweden's socialist social engineers have done their level best to demolish the patriarchal family, creating in its stead a thoroughly feminized womb-to-tomb social welfare state. |
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