Chris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoGen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents dowww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.onlinenews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1229arrow-down1external-linkGen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents dowww.vox.comChris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.onlinenews@lemmy.world
minus-squareBitrot@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoInstall our software! Just pipe a curl download of some random script into a root shell, it’ll be fine.
minus-squareEuphoma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agolol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me.
minus-squarepetrescatraian@libranet.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago@Bitrot scams no longer mean malware anymore. Phishing is also a thing for example. And hiding full URLs from a browser’s bar doesn’t help with this either
Install our software! Just pipe a curl download of some random script into a root shell, it’ll be fine.
lol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me.
@Bitrot scams no longer mean malware anymore. Phishing is also a thing for example. And hiding full URLs from a browser’s bar doesn’t help with this either