alt Hacker NewsInternet didn't change, it's population did. It's 8 billion potential victims and all bit more sophisticated thieves under one roof.
Can't blame Internet. People which were scammed "offline" are now scammed online.
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grumbel • yesterday at 7:10 PM
Internet deserves some blame too, when you have 8 billion people, but only 4 billion addresses, you are naturally going to end up with a lot of centralized services to work around those limits.
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The internet is the people using it, if many of its users have come up with more effective ways to exploit the rest than the internet has become a worse place.