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by samkater 629 days ago
I had a similar experience where I was also assured the data was “doubly protected, it’s secured by a password here and re-secured at the remote site.”

Besides that immediately making me question their security, it is a great example how people trust things without much thought. I’ve heard of calls for statistics to be pushed over calculus to improve math literacy in the general population, perhaps some cybersecurity courses should be pushed over “learn to code” to improve tech literacy.