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> I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually. It is a mechanism of shifting re
by caskstrength 3y ago
> I don't know what the catalyst for this was, but a lot of 20 years olds and younger seem to use the word hacked so casually.
It is a mechanism of shifting responsibility. If your password is "1234" and you gave it away to a totally legit MS support center employee that called you recently because MS has detected that your iPhone has a virus, then it is on you. But if North Korean hackers compromised your watch via elaborate hacking campaign to mine bitcoin on it, then it is "not your fault".
- vdaea 3y agoYou just have to see how the media says 23andme was "hacked" when actually accounts were compromised using a password spraying attack.
- progbits 3y agoSame thing how all company breaches are attributed to "sophisticated state sponsored actors" even though most of the time the company provides zero evidence it wasn't a single bored hacker in their moms basement.
- somenameforme 3y agosolarwinds123 https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/16/solarwinds_github_password/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/16/solarwinds_github_pas...
- sciencesama 3y agoOr poor it policies !!
- matt-attack 3y agoOr more often than not, a disgruntled current or past employee.
- dcow 3y agoA little bit of a gap in understanding too. Something happened to your account and you don’t know how? Hacked. Turns out for a lot of people your piss drunk self, your weird ex boyfriend, and that person setting up fake OF with a selection of your public fb/insta pictures, are all threat actors too.
- kentiko 3y agoDon’t forget: it’s never the victim’s fault, no matter how careless they are.
- taldo 3y agoThe customer is always right... unless they are not.