| Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary 1,723,755,183 visitors served. |
|
Dictionary/ thesaurus | Medical dictionary | Legal dictionary | Financial dictionary | Acronyms | Idioms | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
social engineering |
Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Acronyms, Wikipedia | 0.01 sec. |
social engineeringUsing persuasion and deception to obtain confidential information from someone by phone or in person. It is the low-tech approach for breaking into a computer system. Sometimes, a combination of social engineering and hacker skills are used to steal information.
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. |
|
| ? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| USELESS TO THE STATE: "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927-1937. Regulating engines then becomes a metonym for social engineering, and the engineer, in reinventing himself to solve this social problem, elevates his social status and authority in following the quintessential middle-class social trajectory. Second, I intend to show how said positivism both serves the logic of social engineering that is inherent in "nation-building" and manifested in the electoral rules, by legitimating it without concern for the impact of the rules' substance on post-Saddam Hussein Iraqi political life. |
| Encyclopedia |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Free toolbar & extensions |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|---|