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I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone - in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don't trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.

I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.