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It's a different threat model to your other examples though. The pizza guy, the driver, the lady down the street, unless they know you and have something agains
by cataflam 11y ago
It's a different threat model to your other examples though. The pizza guy, the driver, the lady down the street, unless they know you and have something against you, they would want to target you with no apparent motive in your examples. There is plenty of motive to hack random computers by just putting up a malicious website. And people try to do it all the time, and install malware with various degrees of stealth. It's not really an unknown or crazy threat.
The website threat model also allows the bad guy to target someone by IP, or some country, or only put the malicious code 1 in 1000 times, so it's not going to be widely noticed, etc.
Or it could be an HTTP (not -S) website and someone MitMs you (OK that is a pretty far-fetched attack vector for someone who MitMs you, I admit).
edit: although I agree with you that I've personally never encountered a case where this specific malicious trick happened
- theandrewbailey 11y ago> It's a different threat model to your other examples though. The pizza guy, the driver, the lady down the street, unless they know you and have something against you, they would want to target you with no apparent motive in your examples. No obvious motive or relationship is needed, especially when mental illness is considered. It could be that some stranger who lives elsewhere is walking down your street and might be looking to mug someone.