Social Engineering How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication

• Main Author: Gehl, Robert W. (auth)
• Other Authors: Lawson, Sean T (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Juvenile offenders; History of engineering & technology; Spyware; Computer security; History of engineering and technology; Crime and criminology
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Manipulative communication-from early twentieth-century propaganda to today's online con artistry-examined through the lens of social engineering. The United States is awash in manipulated information about everything from election results to the effectiveness of medical treatments. Corporate s...