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by crngefest 700 days ago
I concur with his views on educating users.

It’s so much better to prevent them from doing unsafe things in the first place, education is a long and hard undertaking and I see little practical evidence that it works on the majority of people.

>But, but, but I really really need to do $unsafething

No in almost all cases you don’t - it’s just taking shortcuts and cutting corners that is the problem here

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The attacks with the biggest impact are usually social engineering attacks though. It can be as simple as shoulder surfing, tailgating or as advanced as an AI voice scam. Actually these are widely popularized since the early 90s by people like Kevin Mitnick