how to prevent social engineering

a short halo 3 machinima on the dangers of social engineering me and a friend made for my IT class.
Plus a dear sister parody!
Man, it sure is easier making machinima in halo than it is in source...
Also, to both google and WMG, if this video gets muted due to the "Hide and seek" clip, neither of you will like the result.
Then again, neither of you can stop what I'm planning anyways, but if you want to dig yourselves in deeper, go ahead and mute this.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• halo
• dear
• sister
• IT
• social
• engineering
• machinima
• hacking
• prevention
• networking

[MissJuneBennett]

Dude you have way too much time on your hands.

[theoriginalrandomman]

cool story, bro.

[erics2a]

LoL GREAT MAN

YOU HAVENT PLAYED ON HL2 SERVER IN WHILE lol =(((( great vid by the way

[theoriginalrandomman]

yeah sorry about that friend ;)

I'll be on more soon enough, I really would like to sharpen my deathmatch skills...

[GamersMinion]

of course they wont ask for your information. they already have it!

[theoriginalrandomman]

I had no idea that social engineering had another meaning.

Well, I'm going to delete some of those comments...

wouldn't want anyone attempting to join in on a fight that ended...

really sorry about that. Guess I'll go google social engineering.

[SwobyJ]

I have Halo 3, am attending university, love the Dear Sister parody, and use Youtube *lots*, but I'm also aware as much as I can be of why others *want me* to do these things.

[SwobyJ]

YES :D

I understood it from your IT standpoint, and just wanted to chip in from my standpoint, that's *all*. I wasn't trying to be vague or an asshole, but I was trying to 'post comment' about other meanings of social engineering. In a way, both are similar - ways of a select faction of people to influence whole masses of people.

[theoriginalrandomman]

alright, I think I misunderstood your original comment, which lead to my over-reaction, for which I apologise.

I think the problem here is that we're using the term "social engineering" in different contexts, which lead to the aforementioned confusion.

I'm of course referring to it from an IT standpoint.

However, you mean it differently, am I correct?

[SwobyJ]

You have fallen to 'real' social engineering if:

1)You're an avid Halo player.

2)You're in school.

3)You're following trends, like the 'Dear Sister' parody.

4)You're using Youtube.

Almost everyone is screwed.