I was watching the PirateSoftware drama. There is this psychiatrist, Dr. K, who interviewed him after the internet hated him, and everyone praised Dr. K for calling him out or whatever. But much more fascinating is Dr. K’s interview with PirateSoftware a year before, as PirateSoftware expertly manipulates Dr. K into thinking he is an enlightened being and likely an accomplished yogi in a past life. If you listen to the interview he starts picking up on Dr. K’s spiritual beliefs and playing into them subtly:
I figured PirateSoftware must be stupider than I estimated given his weird coding decisions, but I bet he is legit very smart. His old job was doing white hat phishing and social engineering and I imagine he was very good at it.
I was watching the PirateSoftware drama. There is this psychiatrist, Dr. K, who interviewed him after the internet hated him, and everyone praised Dr. K for calling him out or whatever. But much more fascinating is Dr. K’s interview with PirateSoftware a year before, as PirateSoftware expertly manipulates Dr. K into thinking he is an enlightened being and likely an accomplished yogi in a past life. If you listen to the interview he starts picking up on Dr. K’s spiritual beliefs and playing into them subtly:
I figured PirateSoftware must be stupider than I estimated given his weird coding decisions, but I bet he is legit very smart. His old job was doing white hat phishing and social engineering and I imagine he was very good at it.
Yeah people underestimate how hard social engineering is ngl, cuz it’s one of those things very easy to get started in but very hard to be good at