>>6122
You'd be surprised how well social engineering can work. In fact, it's easiest to do against big companies, less so against individuals (with a few exceptions), but of course it requires experience, not just reading some online guide. It does count as hacking, too, since hackers tend to have a rather strange definition of hacking. Lock picking and dumpster diving are hacking! After all, DEF CON does have a social engineering village, and it's one of the most useful techniques in any professional pentester's arsenal.