Social Engineering

"Well, the way I arrived at the correct password is by using Social Engineering," Shibu said, taking a sip into his peach mist. 

"Of course, that's what my AI was doing. It was sourcing all data available on the internet about Donald Point and using it to engineer its password. What could you possibly know about him that is not on the internet? You do not know him personally right." Saira said glaringly.  

"You are right," Sambhu said and continued. "Your program was doing an excellent job in getting all the information and combining all numeric and special character combinations with the information. There is no way I could have known even half of the information it had about Donald Point." "Why did the code not generate the correct password then?" Saira interrupted to ask. "The code did generate the correct password. But you know the limitation. The correct password had to come in the first 10 seconds. That's where the code was lagging. The correct password was coming in a few seconds late, so it never matched when you were running the program. Remember, I worked on the prioritization logic alone" Shibu said. 

"What's wrong with the prioritization logic of the code?" Saira asked thoughtfully. "Oh, there was nothing wrong. It had all the right logic. The program sourced information from the internet and prioritized based on personal details such as date of birth, family member names first, followed by lesser relevant data about the user. That is exactly how social engineering works. You bet on the most probable information to be part of the password. That is how human beings work. They want a password that they can recall. People never entirely randomize their passwords, because if they do that, they would have to write it somewhere, which is not a good practice." Shibu explained. "Then.." Saira said leaning forward curiously. "Then why did I work on the prioritization logic?" Shibu smiled and continued. "Let's first look at the correct password. 'Kean$$2325' any bells ringing?" Saira gazed into space for a moment and blinked to look at Shibu with a smile "yes" she said.