Your brain is easily hacked.
By default, you won't:
- Give sensitive information to strangers
- Buy things you don't need
- Break reasonable rules
But there are social engineering techinques people use that make you far more likely to do these things.
A collection of them:

1. Saying something purposely wrong instead of asking a question
People are way quicker to correct you than they are to give up information when you ask a question.
@kevinmitnick's book is full of stories about this tactic.
He once used it while trying to find out the hotel…

@kevinmitnick 2. Impersonation
I've seen many YouTuber friends get their channel hacked.
All their videos get deleted, replaced with a livestream promoting some scam.
How does this happen?
Simply put, they are tricked by an imposter.
Typically, it's an email from someone claiming to be…