Re:Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode wh...
by skinnymuch on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:55AM
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Yeah for sure about the "too scared" to do any CLI or any other different sort of thing. I've had some Mac friends just copy paste homebrew stuff in. Without any knowledge of how popular it is or if they are for sure on the correct site. They just knew I said homebrew [cask] is good and installed it. They could've easily gone to a wrong site and gotten screwed over. Half these people are people into gadgets and electronics, but probably will only open terminal once a year on their Macs, if that much.
And if someone thinks regular people would be "too scared" of CLI to pipe curl into sudo sh, remember that people are "too scared" of developer tools in browsers too, and yet Facebook and others have to implement self-XSS protection measures in there, because it turns out there's nothing too complicated in computing when it stands between a person and fulfilling their desire (as promised by a scammer).