October 8, 2022 at 8:03 AM Let me tell you a story that you have probably heard about. A Russian politician named Alexei Navalny was poisoned and nearly died. After his recovery, he used air travel databases, call billing, and leaked databases to identify people who tried to poison him. After that, having changed the number, he called his killer and talked to him for 30 minutes, posing as an assistant to his boss, collecting reports. Reporting why the assassination failed. This whole operation, of course, is not exactly a hack, maximum social engineering. But in my memory, this is the most impressive trick. And it happened not in the movie, but in reality.
