{"id":1448,"date":"2007-10-06T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2007-10-06T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T20:21:00","slug":"social-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1448","title":{"rendered":"Social Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">When I was in Taiwan I was witness to one of the most impressive pieces of social engineering I have ever seen. The Chinese are renown for two things (amongst others) which are a penchant for gambling and a dislike for paper work and government taxes. So I was surprised in Taiwan to discover shop attendants almost forcing me to take the cash register receipt. Even in Australia, if I say bought  bottle of water from a food place, they would not bother giving me a receipt. When I returned to my hostel, I asked about this unexpected behavior. It turned out, that the government had a problem. Small businesses would not record their cash flow. surprise! surprise! But they had very cleverly solved the problem. They issued government supplied cash registers. Every receipt is a lotter ticket in a national lottery. Once a month the prizes are drawn and the wining numbers published in a national news paper. As a foreigner I could not win a prize, so just before I left I gave my receipts to some locals I knew who could. I was mightly impressed and I can say that apart from the night food markets, I never ever made a purchase without getting a receipt.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;IMG_3600&#8221; by <b>Doug Nienhuis<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/6v8.gamboni.org\/Flickr-Easy-Photo-Post.html\">[?]<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dougnienhuis\/1013563283\/\" title=\"Go to the photo page\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/1386\/1013563283_f1e9b31af6_m.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in Taiwan I was witness to one of the most impressive pieces of social engineering I have[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}