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When it comes to hacking or intelligence, social engineering is always more effective than brute force attacks.

“A 25-year-old former America Online employee who admitted he became a cyberspace “outlaw” when he sold all 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses to spammers was sentenced Wednesday to a year and three months in prison.” Via Newsday

Spycraft has always known that it is never the guy in black who steals the good poop, it is the infiltrator, the mole, the employee who can be turned through avarice or an appeal to pride or revenge: money or revenge. This was the case with a former AOL employee. Your biggest enemy probably sits next to you in your very own office.

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