Interesting how "social engineering" has had 3 meanigns historically
~1850s - 1930s: social darwinism, authoritarian high modernism, eugenics
~1930s - 1990s: socioeconomic policy (keynesian, welfare, friedmanite...)
~1990s - : psychology hacking in computer interactions
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Theory, it's all the same thing. It's just moved down the value chain closer and closer to the last mile of controlling human behavior.
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I don't actually know when the term came to mean things like phishing... I'm assuming it happened in the 90s?
