Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
by Malcolm Gladwell · 1 Oct 2024 · 283pp · 85,644 words
orchestrating the course of contagious behavior. I know that sounds dramatic. But the truth is that all kinds of people engage in this kind of social engineering—and they aren’t always honest about what they are doing. 3. The pioneer in thinking about the implications of tipping points was a sociologist
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principle which in a well ordered world should have needed no such proving. The existence of tipping points creates an irresistible opportunity to engage in social engineering. It makes you want to tinker with the number of women on a corporate board or rearrange the minority students in an elementary classroom. But
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do with the Magic Third and Rosabeth Kanter’s ideas about group proportions. But what Harvard is doing is very different from the kind of social engineering tried by the Lawrence Tract. The participants in that experiment made no secret of what they were doing. They wanted to manipulate their numbers, and
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they called their members together to work out the details. Social engineering takes on a very different face, however, when the engineers go about their business in secret. There is far too much of this second, hidden
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playing for Harvard that rainy day at Princeton, it was easy to see how the sport was tailor-made for a little extra bit of social engineering. This team—like most other sports teams at Harvard—was overwhelmingly white. The members came from some of the nicest upper-middle-class communities in
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body has been properly prepared for the Harvard experience on the country-club playing fields of the United States. If you don’t think that social engineering has quietly become one of the central activities of the American establishment, you haven’t been paying attention. Footnotes 1 Khoury was acquitted. And if
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those two days in downtown Boston was nothing less than a public-health disaster. The Lawrence Tract and Harvard’s rugby team are examples of social engineering. Tipping points create an irresistible temptation to intervene in the world. But with that temptation come very difficult questions. How do we balance the needs
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of the individual against those of the group? This chapter is about a third, even more difficult, social-engineering challenge—the one raised by the Biogen meeting at the Marriott Long Wharf. It has to do with the unsettling reality of how epidemics spread
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by that difficulty, apparently, that we’d rather breathe dirty air. In this section of the book, we’ve dealt with well-meaning attempts at social engineering that run into impossible problems: What if the only way to save a community devoted to helping black people is to turn black people away
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? Harvard’s rugby team is an example of a second kind of social-engineering problem: What do we do when institutions quietly manipulate their numbers in order to sustain the privilege of a few? But here I want to
The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
by Jacob Siegel · 24 Mar 2026 · 348pp · 103,246 words
to command and control, he was given a second assignment heading the Behavioral Sciences program, out of which grew ARPA’s far-reaching surveillance and social engineering initiatives. Stephen Lukasik, ARPA’s second-longest-serving director who worked with Licklider there, says that Licklider “saw the command-and-control problem as having
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shroud of secrecy. When the second opened in Thailand the following year, Congress was not informed. The Bangkok branch led Project AGILE’s behavioral and social engineering programs. A “Human Factors Study” collected data, most of it body measurements, from almost three thousand members of the Thai military. The measurements were supposedly
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of computerized models of reality—‘hyperreality,’ as it’s been called—as distinguished from the palatable, immediate, physical reality inhabited by ordinary men and women.” Social engineering became indispensable to such people, he wrote, because it reflected their own experience of “living in an artificial environment from which everything that resists human
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, and Google were neither fully private enterprises nor open public squares, but something else: closely guarded artificial environments that combined politics, news, entertainment, information, and social engineering into a single medium. Shaping that medium was the task of officials—in both the public and private sectors—who operated between the seams of
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Meier, 1975), 157. “It had to be an effective state” Ellul, Technological Society, 151. “to invent industrial-strength tools” John M. Jordan, Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911–1939 (University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 9. “This form of coercion” Edward Alsworth Ross, Social Control: A Survey of the
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lent its bewitching title to an excellent 2011 BBC documentary by the filmmaker Adam Curtis dealing with the history of cybernetics, theories of ecology, and social engineering. “design a catalog that would supply the communes” Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital
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Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015), 60. A German commission A fuller account of Google’s mapping process and its implications for privacy and social engineering can be found in Zuboff, Age of Surveillance Capitalism, chapter 5. “long history of mapmaking” Matthew B. Crawford, “Seeing Like Google: Mapmaking as an Instrument
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
by Carissa Véliz · 21 Apr 2026 · 503pp · 129,255 words
Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott identifies four key elements involved in the most tragic episodes of state-initiated social engineering: The legibility of a society provides the capacity for large-scale social engineering, high-modernist ideology provides the desire, the authoritarian state provides the determination to act on that desire, and an
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–16 Sinovation Ventures, 148 Sky Net, 146 Slater, Louise, 252 slavery, 36, 56, 229–30, 275 Smith, Adam, 35 Smith, Emma, 267 Snyder, Timothy, 121 social engineering, 149 social media, 75, 79, 104, 269, 286 algorithms, 8–9, 71, 79, 138, 188 politicians and, 78–79 self-fulfilling prophecies and, 138 social
The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities
by Justin Schuh · 20 Nov 2006 · 2,054pp · 359,149 words
by automated and manual processes that surround the system. Operational vulnerabilities can even include certain types of attacks on users of the system, such as social engineering and theft. These issues occur in the SDLC operation and maintenance phase, although they have some overlap into the integration and testing phase. Going back
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the time of this writing, it’s available at www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/. * * * Homographic Attacks Homographic attacks are primarily useful as a form of social engineering; Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher originally described them in “The Homographic Attack” published in the February 2002 edition of Communications of the ACM. These attacks
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by P. W. Singer and August Cole · 28 Jun 2015 · 537pp · 149,628 words
lost in the fog of war and the Bay. That speech had gone over well; no doubt one of his public affairs team’s own social-engineering algorithms had come up with it. Jamie took a last sip of coffee and slowly dumped the rest out, watching it spatter the ground at
Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff
by Chris Fehily · 1 Feb 2011 · 106pp · 22,332 words
’t use system resources and isn’t browser-dependent. Try mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm or hosts-file.net. Education. Read Wikipedia’s article about social engineering. For current threats, read RISKS Digest and Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram Newsletter. For Windows-specific threats, visit Microsoft Security. Browse through the lectures at
NeoAddix
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood · 16 Jan 1997 · 338pp · 92,385 words
, as a hacker Alex was kinderclass, as a witness chaser he was magic. He’d gone after her like he’d go after any witness, social engineering his way through one weak link after another - closing in on her. He knew which county, he knew which city. Soon enough it would be
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by Sam Newman · 25 Dec 2014 · 540pp · 103,101 words
with the human element in your organization. How do you revoke access to credentials when someone leaves the organization? How can you protect yourself against social engineering? As a good mental exercise, consider what damage a disgruntled ex-employee could do to your systems if she wanted to. Putting yourself in the
Joel on Software
by Joel Spolsky · 1 Aug 2004 · 370pp · 105,085 words
put them on something else more urgent. Q Would it be possible for somebody to have software run in a restricted environment such that clever social engineering worm messages can't propagate? It seems like a losing battle to me to keep saying "upgrade your antivirus software" and "don't run random
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string type Ashton-Tate blunders Ask Joel questions buffer time–2nd competitor products–2nd customer feedback–2nd grocery store double–bags–2nd program managers, {}–2nd social engineering worm messages–2nd software development future–2nd stock options, expensing–2nd Web applications–2nd ASP programming abstraction in crash handling in mastering Asymetrix Toolbook Atom
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of–2nd in software schedules size of bloatware–2nd skills, program manager smart employees–2nd smart-but-don't-get-things-done employees Snyder, Carolyn social engineering worm messages–2nd Soft•letter 100 list software development, future of–2nd software product guide software prototypes–2nd software schedules–2nd buffers in, 2nd debugging
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–4th working to measurement systems WorldCom worlds of software development–2nd awareness of–2nd embedded–2nd games internal–2nd shrinkwrap–2nd throwaway–2nd worm messages, social engineering–2nd writers of functional specifications–2nd writing code for competitor spreadsheets in interviews–2nd vs. reading code X XAML Avalon system–2nd API changes for
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