I remember precisely where I was when I first saw Erdal talking about social engineering: it was a jam-packed room at Microsoft's TechEd, overflowing into the hallway, if memory serves me. Software developers and IT pros alike had flooded into the room to hear about this phenomenon, which sounded so intriguing—the ability to bend people to your will with what must have seemed like mind control to many people. The audience was in raptures as they learned about how the best technology controls we had at our disposal were so readily circumvented due to the fallibility of the organic matter sitting at the keyboard.
But the memory that sticks with me to this day is not the content, but rather how Erdal made people feel; scared, entertained, ...
