Social Engineering AI

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The most common form of 'hacking' is simply social engineering. Films would look the viewer to believe otherwise, but par a stupid database admin, no-one (unless they possess 1024+ GPUs) is going to bother to attempt to brute force a hash. That's just ridiculous. It would be easier to crack the hashing algorithm. I digress.

So since the most common (and successful) method is social engineering. An AI could be created to comb through users' social media profiles, figure out their likes and attempt to guess their password.

Technophobe? password password1 123456 qwerty
Dog lover? benjy woof99

An AI to perform this task would be ridiculously complex and have a very low success rate. However, after years of learning, it may just be good enough to break the most simple passwords. The learning would be sped up if it was fed a list of passwords given the social media profiles of that user. I believe it was Gawker, a few years ago, whose database was hacked revealing thousands of plaintext passwords. Idiots.

Anyway, time for work.

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