If you wanna be real these are also commonly in the hacker repository:
>Pretend to be someone on the phone. Pretend to be pissed off and say you don't remember the password or the security question and refuse to stop complaining. It actually works more often than you expect.
>Bribing and blackmailing employees. Just hack their browser history seriously, or hijack their browser and do a bunch of illicit things if they're clean.
>Physically takeover a cell signal tower.
>Clip a transfer cable since most "secure" wifi used wired connections. Just pretend to be city workers digging ditches, or actual ISP providers doing their usual checks.
>Dumpster driving. Most people have passwords close to their lives, or information that help hackers gain trust to enable further hacking.
>Steal someone's phone and SIM-swap... Actually I think someone started doing sim-takeovers without even touching someone's phone early last year.
>Use drones as remote relays.(The idea was old. Kinda surprises me they only started doing this now.)
AFAIK actual hackers are both more physical and do more typing than you'd think. v=w=v
Thanks a lot, this is useful. Especially the drone, which can be used as a standard equipment for playing the role of hacker. In fact, in China a few years ago, There's a joke about someone wielding a mop and shooting down drones to fend off hackers.
Regarding Steal someone's phone and SIM-swap, I'm not familiar with this technology. But inspired by this, I thought that a hacker can steal someone's access card and NFC card, maybe that would be useful in TRPG.
May differ from general impression, maybe a hacker's social engineering skills will play a bigger role in COC.
