Susan Headley
“Susan Thunder”Early Social Engineer
Talking her way into military and telco systems
Rating
78Impact score
Domains
Social engineeringPhone phreaking
Scouting report
Ran in the same Los Angeles phreaking circles as Mitnick and Lewis De Payne and specialized in the human layer — pretext calls, trashed printouts, borrowed credentials. One of the very few women documented in the earliest scene, and she walked away from it entirely.
Curator’s note
Written out of most retellings. This set puts her back in.
Sources
- 01Susan Headley en.wikipedia.org
- 02Phreaking en.wikipedia.org