Nov 14
Some things are timeless
When you get a minute, read this article. It’s rather lengthy, so you’ll want to have 10 minutes or so.
When I was in school, I wrote a short paper about Stanley Milgram, the history of his experiments and how they still hold up today, under modern conditions. This article is a pretty strong example of the same thing - basically, if an authority figure asks you to submit to something, you will usually do it. No matter who the authority figure is. This is the sort of thing that makes social engineering possible, and as horrific an example as the previous article is, it is a shining example of social engineering at its finest.