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Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)

Let's talk about pickpocketing Social engineering, lockpicking, hacking, they are all kinds of moral grey areas in each. While many of us use these skills for good, others do not. I don't often see a lot mentioned about pickpocketing when talking about social engineering, but I see a lot about lockpicking. While pickpocketing seems to focus on two areas at the moment: theft and stage magic, I feel that there is use in pickpocketing as a part of being a social engineer. A lot of the thinking behind pickpocketing translates into social engineering, profiling, pretexting, misdirection, basic psychology, etc. I'm interested in learning more about this skill and I'm going through the process of acquiring practice dummies to hone my skill, much like I would get practice locks to practice my lockpicking. Anyways, enough rambling, here are some links: [http://pickpocket.blog.ca/](http://pickpocket.blog.ca/) Blog by an amateur pickpocket. He doesn't steal, but he puts little cards in people's pockets or purses to let them know they should be paying more attention. He has some tutorials on his blog. Psycology behind pickpocketing and marks: [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/11/01/my-day-with-a-master-pickpocket-behind-the-scenes-at-the-making-of-a-neuroscience-and-magic-video/) (this highlights some of the SE skills involved) Does anyone have any stories they'd like to share about using pickpocketing on an engagement, or any resources for others to learn this skill? (assume basic Googling has been done, because it has been) edit: tl;dr: I'm interested to see if I'm crazy in assuming this would be valuable in SE engagements, or if other higher tech methods are better. (taking pictures of badges, cloning proxcards, etc)