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What's the best thing SE's got you? At the request of a few people, I posted this, partly to tell how I did it and answer any questions, and partly to hear other people's experiences and thoughts. Anyway, here's the request: http://www.reddit.com/r/SocialEngineering/comments/18bx8z/i_snuck_into_the_superbowl_without_paying_amaa/c8dmtky?context=3 So yeah, I got backstage and on stage at a major music festival, without anything. I also got a £20 ticket to the Olympics closing ceremony and got into the seats that were exclusively for the big time sponsors - to give you an idea, I sat next to the UK McDonalds heads, and I took the photo of a Samsung head for him. The seats had a value of £2.5k each. I also used the same tactics for getting very nice (often front row) Olympic seats. Firstly, this post was incredibly helpful: http://www.nevblog.com/how-to-crash-a-party/ everyone should read it. I'm gonna warn you now, I don't think anything I'm gonna say is gonna be mind-blowing, but I'll say it anyways. For the festival, it was simple. Met up with some people I knew, turned out they knew someone and all had BAA (Backstage all areas) passes. This gave them a lanyard (fairly similar in looks to the one they gave everyone who came into the festival) and a wristband. Naturally, I wanted to get backstage, so I simply got in roughly the middle of the group of 6 (far enough from both ends to get the security at hopefully their minimum observation level), maintained a look and posture of confidence, but not so much as to draw attention. When it was my turn, I flashed my wrist briefly enough for them to see vaguely the right colour wristband, but not to be able to inspect too closely. I can't remember what I did with my eyes. Writing this, I feel as if it might be best to either make strong eye contact and say a passing comment to distract and build rapport, or look at somewhere other than the wrist. I think probably a combination, i.e. eye contact followed by a brief look i

What's the best thing SE's got you? At the request of a few people, I posted this, partly to tell how I did it and answer any questions, and partly to hear other people's experiences and thoughts. Anyway, here's the request: http://www.reddit.com/r/SocialEngineering/comments/18bx8z/i_snuck_into_the_superbowl_without_paying_amaa/c8dmtky?context=3 So yeah, I got backstage and on stage at a major music festival, without anything. I also got a £20 ticket to the Olympics closing ceremony and got into the seats that were exclusively for the big time sponsors - to give you an idea, I sat next to the UK McDonalds heads, and I took the photo of a Samsung head for him. The seats had a value of £2.5k each. I also used the same tactics for getting very nice (often front row) Olympic seats. Firstly, this post was incredibly helpful: http://www.nevblog.com/how-to-crash-a-party/ everyone should read it. I'm gonna warn you now, I don't think anything I'm gonna say is gonna be mind-blowing, but I'll say it anyways. For the festival, it was simple. Met up with some people I knew, turned out they knew someone and all had BAA (Backstage all areas) passes. This gave them a lanyard (fairly similar in looks to the one they gave everyone who came into the festival) and a wristband. Naturally, I wanted to get backstage, so I simply got in roughly the middle of the group of 6 (far enough from both ends to get the security at hopefully their minimum observation level), maintained a look and posture of confidence, but not so much as to draw attention. When it was my turn, I flashed my wrist briefly enough for them to see vaguely the right colour wristband, but not to be able to inspect too closely. I can't remember what I did with my eyes. Writing this, I feel as if it might be best to either make strong eye contact and say a passing comment to distract and build rapport, or look at somewhere other than the wrist. I think probably a combination, i.e. eye contact followed by a brief look i