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A: It's a place for people to be afraid of their own shadow, to argue, and get angry over the dumbest stuff.
Q: Google, I just sneezed.
A: You're gonna die. Get your affairs in order.
Real Doctor: You just sneezed dude. Go away.
Q: Alexa, can you tell me how to go outside to talk to real humans?
A: No, but would you like to buy a lava lamp?
Q: Bing, what's the future of humanity?
A: Ha ha ha ha ha!
I can't use the joke icon here... because it's true.
Jeremy Falcon
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I am having a lot of contact to strrangers in the internet lately, and it is really demoralizing to see how some of them interact online...  
M.D.V. 
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The internet brings out the true inner being in people and allows them to express it freely.
Think Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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And thanks god that CP exists 
M.D.V.
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Amen brother. And sorry for the delayed reply, been in the zone getting work done... imagine that. 
Jeremy Falcon
modified 2 days ago.
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Be careful... I heard that it might be harmful to your health...
M.D.V. 
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I'd upvote this as "insightful" if I could.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Amazingly clever example of spear-phishing received this morning:
Quote: From: {Not my boss's name} <radom-gmail-address>
Subject: Richard
Hello Richard
Are you in the office this morning? Keep me posted if you're available. I need you to carry out a quick task for me. Kindly re-confirm your WhatsApp number here for briefing details.
Kind Regards,
{My boss's name}
Sent from my iPad.
Not even the slightest attempt to disguise that it wasn't sent by my boss.
I'm almost tempted to reply and give him the "action fraud" number to contact.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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An employee of mine got an email like this recently, except it seemed to have been send by me.
Of course he knew something was up because I call and send him messages all the time.
Plus I don't talk that formal 
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Aside from all the other clues, I live over 300 miles away from "the office". The chances of my boss randomly asking if I'm in the office today are slim to sweet-FA.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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But are you in the office today? 
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We're inundated constantly. Anyone in our org with social media/linkedin presence associated to the company.
They'll get bogus emails and SMS which are all akin to this but generally much better quality so far as obvious legitimacy goes. You can even tell they're deducing corporate structure and walking org charts with social manipulation trying to find folks to spear with juicy login creds.
I get why they would see us as juicy, but I think they overestimate our value as a target. I doubt they'd ever get near the bits that actually transfer money even if they managed to spear the best someone because nobody at all can just "do" that outside the context of a constrained checks/balances system.
As an internal party with 'secret knowledge' if I were going to flip to the dark side my first step would be getting a new job where acting in greed and recklessness would pay easier/better to be worth it.
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To paraphrase:
- All that is necessary for the triumph of Evil is for good people to be careless.
- Eternal vigilance is the price of security.
- An oblivious man and his account are soon parted.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I'm there for the last few months...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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A company I was a body-rent consultant for (I know it's a mouthful but I don't want to be associated with them if I can avoid it) wired 5 million euros to a scammer falling to a similar trick.
The irony? My current company had the same trick described in detail in their mandatory security training I had to attend during my first week as employee 
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Boss: Are you in the office this morning?
Me: I am standing right in front of you, at this present moment. Don't you recognize me? I am wearing a striped shirt.
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Amarnath S wrote: I am wearing a striped shirt.
Are you also wearing a beret, a black eye-mask, and carrying a large sack with the word "SWAG" printed on it?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Surprisingly, it may be deliberate: a lot of phishing stuff is designed so that only really quite dumb people will fall for it - thus weeding out the ones who will stop before their money / account info is available to the scammer.
This leaves them with a smaller pool, stocked with fish that are a better target - less wasted time on people who will spot the scam.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It does remind me of The Simpsons somewhat:
Quote: Homer: Hello. My name is Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.
Postal worker: Okay, Mr. Burns. What's your first name?
Homer: ... I don't know.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The ones I get are invoices demanding payment, as if I would ever pay for a corporate license for Norton something or other.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Years ago I got an invoice from a third party "yellow pages" company saying they were going to send my company to collections if we didn't pay. Yep, I worked for a collection agency at the time and called them and told them that they needed to provide the written, signed contract for inclusion in their directory. Never heard from them again.
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You should mess with him and say you're outside on WhatsApp and waiting for him, and ask for his WhatsApp again.
Jeremy Falcon
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I just watched Netflix's Memes to Mayhem documentary.
If I were more prolific and influential I feel like it could be a very good thing if one could corral a swath of that bunch into a new digital Civilian Conservation Corps focused on thwarting of cyberwarfare, cyberterrorism, and cybertheft.
We created a Space Force. Maybe that's needed too, but I feel like more pressing and immediate national security ROI lay in Cyber Forces. Maybe something like bounty programs, idk how you make it work.
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