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		jonnybgood on March 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessin... Usually when the term hacked is used it's used technically. The end result is the same but it's important to be accurate about the method and means.

mordocai on March 8, 2016 [–]

Actually, the term hacked is more often used nowadays in social engineering cases since that is how most data breaches occur. Espionage falls firmly under social engineering.

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