Rural Dictionary

social engineering

Social Engineering is used primarily in the cracking world. These previous defintions talking about free drinks etc IS NOT social engineering. That is a con or scam. Social Engineering is a art form. It is the ability to gain peoples trust and using that information for your own nefarious purposes. Social Engineering can range from the most mundane to elaborate ruses. It can be someone asking a another person for their password or it can be someone pretending to be a a employee of a trusted company to get access to something. Keep in mind the ultimate goal is to get access to something. People are not stupid which is why social engineering came about. A usual direct question to someone for a password or login is going to give you a no answer. However when applying social engineering you would be calling or speaking to this person under the premise that you work for the helpdesk or the telephone co. You temporarily befriend this person get their guard down then get the information you need. Kevin Mitnick was a master of Social of Engineering.

I was able to use Social Engineering with Joe by pretending to work for the Phone Company. I called him and was able to get the employee login list.

I made a fake badge for a tech firm and was able to social engineer my way into the datacenter where I got access to some servers where I was able to install a backdoor.

by Hi-Tech-H8 November 12, 2005

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rotary engine

A type of internal combustion engine consisting of a triangular rotor which rotates in an eccentric orbital motion around a epitrochoid housing. Advantages of this design are a compact size, mechanical simplicity (a two rotor engine has only three moving parts), high potential power output proportional to size, lightweight, high-revving and extremely smooth in operation. Disadvantages include high rate of fuel and oil consumption, complex sealing arrangement and high seal count, weak torque, more fragile than a four-stroke piston engine, and lower long term reliability. Also known as a Wankel engine (pronounced 'Vonkel') after it's inventor, Dr Felix Wankel.

Mazda's RX-7 is probably the best example of a car employing a rotary engine.

by johnnylongprong March 8, 2009

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steam engine

mexican with ( two ) dos 6-packs of tecate beer

I saw hombre laying tijauna river with 2 6-packs.
Saying mexican chooka chooka,chooka,chooka like a steam engine just blowing shit, water, mud, he was bad ass!
Border patrol ran back 100 yards. chooka chooka!

by itichie_nocanpo July 6, 2006

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search engine

1) A vehicle driven by a rescue crew.
2) A website which turns up thousands of useless websites, not really an engine. Only good thing it can do is locate pr0n.

1) "Dude, let's stay together so if I die you can call a search engine."
2) "Aww shit I hate search engines, they don't find anything, except pr0n."

by Soiled Undergarment August 18, 2003

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