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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Social Engineering II

As forwards went, it was a very clever one. It had multiple levels of encryption, and you could only read the first lines. You had to do something -say, buy a small item from a certain store, put a code in a web form-, use the result to decrypt the next part, and forward it to whoever you wanted to.

It was a clever twist, and, social networks being what they are, you often got the forward back, a few steps ahead.

It was fun.

And as people filled web forms, logged into strange servers, or did any of the myriad bizarre things the forward prompted them to do, the device kept coming closer to completion.

.finis

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And that right there is why I don't bother with chainletters.