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Chris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

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Chris Remington@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
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    @admin this is a result of the enshittification of technology. You’re no longer forced to learn, you’re only displayed a button that you need to press. Doesn’t matter what will the button do behind, just blindly trust that it does what it says it does.

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      Install our software! Just pipe a curl download of some random script into a root shell, it’ll be fine.

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        @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

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      This seems needlessly gatekeepy to me. Are you saying everyone using technology needs to learn exactly how it all works? People aren’t allowed to just use the tools provided to them? Like are cameras worse now that you can just point and shoot vs having to go through many steps for the photo to maybe turn out ok?

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