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by christkv 17 days ago
We all have a safe word in the family just for this issue to identify if it´s the real person or not.
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Someone else pointed out how easy it would be to make a video of anyone having a finger cut off, or similar torture, to scare the victim into believing that the “grandchild” forgot their password and needs you to override the password protocol to save their other 9 fingers. I have to agree. That’s like 80¢ of compute to do. If that’s effective even 30% of the time, it means “just have a password” doesn’t make you safe.
I mean that's a pretty extreme example though. It can be mostly gotten past by using the method used with alarm companies. One "danger" password and one "safe" password.
If the password isn't effective, then they will know it was the fake one.