▲ 231 ▼ Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com) submitted 2 years ago by admin@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 72 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago (2 children) Install our software! Just pipe a curl download of some random script into a root shell, it’ll be fine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago lol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me. permalink fedilink source parent [–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 point 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago lol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 point 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 permalink fedilink source parent