You could take that concept pretty far. There&#x27;s no computer system that doesn&#x27;t involve a human element (CS101). And yet some of the most clever people spend their time finding ways to hack the machine element. Their work inevitably gets understood and integrated into software, either through voluntary submissions through bug bounties or otherwise.<p>Social engineering has been understood for a long time, and yet we can&#x27;t develop defenses in the same way we can develop defenses in software. So we have an underpaid workforce of software hackers uncovering vulnerabilities which get patched and an overpaid workforce of social engineers exploiting unpatchable vulnerabilities in the human condition.<p>Who is really being exploited here?