Interview with Lukas Kohout

Lukas Kohout is a czech famous social engineer. He travelled on costs czech goverment, when he presented self as OSN delegate. When we want defend oneself we shoudl learn from best people on opposite side. We select 10 questions from our long interview with Lukas Kouhout.

Did you ever heard about social engineering?
No I didn't, but I'd love to find out more about it.

Did someone ever call you a social engineer?
No, people called me with various different words, but not this one.

What gave you the idea of traveling as a fake spokesman of Jan Kavan?
I wanted to test the system, unfortunately the system proved to be wrong.

Do you think you could end your ?test? soon so no one could find out?
It was a matter of time, I was surprised it took one year. That's sad.

Where do you think was the security flaw?
With 200 members of parliament it's not easy to monitor who is and who's not somebody's assistant, but people ordering flight tickets should know. It was a failure of internal control.

What kind of security policy would you suggest to prevent these events?
Internal control. I would check the details with the politician himself when someone's booking tickets for him.

Did you succeed with any other hack?
Yes, I summoned a techno party in Milonice.

What do you think about your actions now?
I think I did the right thing. Now people can see what stupid people we have in our government.

Do you often think about any other actions/hacks you would like to try, but can't carry out for some reason?
I have more ideas, but I am suspended and don't want to end up in jail. Still I have some ideas which are on the edge.

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