In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 08:48:08 on
Wed, 6 Oct 2004, C.Oppenheim <[log in to unmask]> writes
>In last night's "East Enders", a character rang a college to find a
>lecturer's home address; pretending to be a fishmonger trying to deliver
>some fresh salmon, she obtained the lecturer's address over the phone. I
>would very much hope that this was, like all East Enders scripts, total
>fiction and that no FEI or HEI would dream of giving out a lecturer's home
>address to a telephone caller.
This kind of "social engineering" happens all the time. It was a
plausible tale, and the lady did know the street, and was only looking
for the number. (As a plot line it was faulty, because her intention was
to stake the chap's house out, when in fact you could have staked out
the whole short street just as easily!)
--
Roland Perry
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