Chris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agoGen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents dowww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down10
arrow-up1229arrow-down1external-linkGen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents dowww.vox.comChris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareNaN@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoInstall our software! Just pipe a curl download of some random script into a root shell, it’ll be fine.
minus-squareEuphoma@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agolol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me.
minus-squarepetrescatraian@libranet.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years 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