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I'm not sure. Maybe I'm caught in the hype but I feel like possible is one thing, scalable is another. We're at the point now where, for example, a leak of pho
by jddj 2y ago
I'm not sure. Maybe I'm caught in the hype but I feel like possible is one thing, scalable is another.
We're at the point now where, for example, a leak of phone number + address book would enable a high quality, large scale automated impersonation pipeline that many here could put together in a weekend.
Install a compromised app (or just be a once-user of a newly-compromised app), then answer the phone for a minute and then everyone you know receives a somewhat believable phonecall to empty their wallets / your accounts?
- effluvium 2y agoIt is the scalability. A motivated well-funded bad actor could reek total havoc.
- Onawa 2y agoBecause English sucks and doesn't have phonetic spelling: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreak%20havoc https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wreak%20havoc
- NetOpWibby 2y agoBecause PEOPLE suck. We could be speaking Martian and the situation would be unchanged. “Because Martian sucks and doesn’t have bleep blorps.”
- Eisenstein 2y agoIt will happen, then people will adapt. Those that don't will suffer. It is tragic but not new. People are getting scammed now by being told in broken English that they need to buy gift cards in order to fend off Tax evasion charges or whatever. The fact is that everyone gets taken for a ride at least once. Many people never admit it to themselves, but we have all been or will be taken advantage of. Some of us end up devastated by it or are an 'eternal mark', but the vast majority of us just learn a lesson. What happens to society when trust becomes risky to the point that everything could be a ruse by a bad actor? It ends up doing what it always does in that situation -- authoritarian regimes can be looked at for examples of what will happen: people will rally around family and extremely close friends, and close off all vulnerability and vastly decrease their tolerance for risk around everyone else, unless they have no other choice.
- sandspar 2y agoImagine it's your mom being scammed.
- Eisenstein 2y agoHow would that change anything?