10-11-04 Socail Engineering and others

this Term Social Engineering

i was always seeing in the Hacker articles and i just wanna know what does it mean

it means

Social Engineering is hacker-speak for tricking a person into revealing their password.

and i got what it mean from these sites

http://www.seas.rochester.edu:8080/CNG/docs/Security/node9.html
http://www.leave-me-alone.com/social.htm

and a good site http://www.leave-me-alone.com/