[Techtalk] Gender as a weapon? Pen-testing and female auditors

[Mary]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004, Raven Alder wrote:
> 	So, I'd like to poll some other geekfemmes. If you have any stories
> 	about being able to get what you wanted in a tech capacity or a
> 	social engineering capacity, and you think being a girl had anything
> 	to do with it (or, conversely, if you're a guy who has used his
> 	sexuality to social engineer), I'd love to hear about it.  Is it
> 	okay to do this sort of thing?  Is it encouraging or setting back
> 	feminism?  (That bit might be more appropriate on one of the chatty
> 	lists.)  But there's a professional paper in this somewhere. 

People asnwering this one might also want to keep in mind that the
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-Mary