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netsharclast Tuesday at 8:59 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's tragic, the amount of babysitting supposed adults need...

(I'm not totally against it, the mythical grandma would otherwise lose all her savings because of an animated dancing monkey exe)


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edm0ndlast Tuesday at 2:17 PM

If you had told me many years ago end users would be opening powershell prompts and willingly copy pasting commands into them to infect themselves with infostealer malware, i wouldn't have believed you yet here we are with ClickFix

lupusreallast Tuesday at 10:27 AM

Protecting grandma from scams by blocking a torrent app on her phone is rich. Getting a phone call is how grandma is going to get scammed.

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mschuster91last Tuesday at 9:09 AM

Unfortunately, said grandma isn't all that mythical. Scams of all kinds cost US citizens alone 158 billion dollars a year [1].

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ftc-states-scams-cost-us-cons...

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