Chris Remington to Technology@beehaw.org • 1 year agoGen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents dowww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
arrow-up1211arrow-down1external-linkGen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents dowww.vox.comChris Remington to Technology@beehaw.org • 1 year agomessage-square39fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
minus-square@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoInstall our software! Just pipe a curl download of some random script into a root shell, it’ll be fine.
minus-square@Euphoma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agolol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me.
minus-squarepetrescatraianlinkfedilink1•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