[kazinator]

> Social engineering is a very appropriate topic for Hacker News.

Certainly, if you take "hacker" to be the mainstream definition corresponding to "cracker".

[kalleboo]

The Y Combinator application form famously has this question on it: "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." A case of social engineering would certainly be a valid response

[kazinator]

Perhaps due to my imagination being feeble, I can't see how that could be about anything but some sort of con job.