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It's insanely cruel and fucked up. Imagining what this is like for the victims goes way, way beyond what calling it a "scam" implies.
by kombookcha 3y ago
It's insanely cruel and fucked up. Imagining what this is like for the victims goes way, way beyond what calling it a "scam" implies.
- LadyCailin 3y agoIt’s actual terrorism. It’s just small beans compared to other things which we usually call terrorism, but that’s what quite a large number of these “scams” are, small scale terrorism.
- bboygravity 3y agoOk, that's fine, but then we're going to need a new word to describe actual terrorism. This had/has a meaning that involves specifically targetting governments and destabilizing them.
- xvector 3y agoPerhaps "psychological torture and extortion" also works as a phrase for this sort of crime.
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- nonrandomstring 3y agoAnd yet the top comment here is: "As horrible as this is, I suspect this will be far worse in enterprise companies." To give the "strongest interpretation" I presume by worse they mean more prevalent. But I also think a fundamental lack of human perspective in the tech world is the real root cause of cybersecurity problems threatening society. I mean, in this context who seriously cares about "enterprise" or money?