social engineer

plural social engineers

1. One who engages in social engineering.

   We need another type of social engineer for the country problem, who will be able to direct the social forces of a whole county and relate them to the best interests of State and county.

   1911, Edwin Lee Earp, The Social Engineer, Eaton & Mains, page 295

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   [Pretexting] is one of the critical points for many social engineers. Pretexting involves developing the role the social engineer will play for the attack on the company. Will the social engineer be a customer, vendor, tech support, new hire, or something equally realistic and believable?

   2010, Christopher Hadnagy, Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, John Wiley, unpaginated page

present singular third person social engineers · participle present social engineering · participle past social engineered · past social engineered

1. transitiveTo achieve or access by means of social engineering.

   Leon social engineered his way into our corporate intranet.

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   What was also prevalent was a Fabian-type view of socialism that it could be administered, even social engineered into existence.

   2018, John Astley, The Role of Social Science in the Education of Professional Practitioners, Routledge, →ISBN