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Re:Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack by UncleMeat on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:07PM (#14277791)
Gonna need to science to show me that most users under 30 know how to avoid phishing (particularly spearphishing). This goes against all available evidence that I have seen in the industry.
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Re:Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack by walrus01 on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:10PM (#14277804)
In my experience a huge number of users under age 30 can't even distinguish the difference between a binary that is natively running on their windows10 or osx workstation OS, and something that is presented inside of a web browser window. Thus you get people paying for windows bluescreen ransom javascript webpages (or "FBI has locked your computer") that are presented with scary graphics as fullscreen inside chrome on OSX.

People basically treat their laptops as glorified thin clients nowadays.

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Re:Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack by maccard on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:23PM (#14277866)
Considering that many day to day apps (slack, spotify, vscode) are web views, is that really surprising?
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