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Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering

From: John Pettitt <jpp () cloudview com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:19:32 -0700



P. Rodriguez wrote:

You can always use caller id, primarily.

Caller ID is not safe it's way too easy to spoof - see
http://www.camophone.com/

Call back on a known number and hope the bad guy isn't into your phone
switch.

John

Current thread:

RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering, (continued)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering David (Apr 19)
  - Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Times Enemy (Apr 20)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Aruna (Apr 19)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Patoff Pat-EtHiQ (Apr 19)
  - RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Yashodhan Deshpande (Apr 20)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Matt Cunnane (Apr 19)
- Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Raoul Armfield (Apr 20)
- Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Alvaro Prieto (Apr 20)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Reece, Terry (Apr 19)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering P. Rodriguez (Apr 19)
  - Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering John Pettitt (Apr 20)
  - Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering rusty chiles (Apr 20)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Sanders, Jonathan (Apr 20)
  - RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering P. Rodriguez (Apr 20)
    - Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering John Pettitt (Apr 20)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Patoff Pat-EtHiQ (Apr 20)
- Re: Steps to avoid Social Engineering John Blackley (Apr 20)
- RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering Sanders, Jonathan (Apr 20)
  - RE: Steps to avoid Social Engineering David (Apr 21)