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arnaudsm
2818 days ago
Why the downvotes ? This is important data, and no one gave this information in the whole thread.
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nkozyra
2818 days ago
Probably because it's entirely anecdotal and attempts to extrapolate from such a small sample size.
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azernik
2818 days ago
It's more a problem of a biased sample than a small sample - this attack spread through the friend network, and so if one of your Facebook friends is in the attacked/vulnerable group then other ones are also likely to be.
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nkozyra
2817 days ago
Sure, but that's very different than the logical problem I'm talking about.
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ericd
2818 days ago
Because his friend group is not a random sampling.
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