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Re:Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit by srinivgp on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @06:56PM (#29020059)
> we’ll need to identify important people with both a high degree of importance but with a low degree of tech literacy, i.e. your average white, male C-level executive

From this, you think the author is suggesting that white male users are more technically illiterate than other individuals? Your detectors are tuned for too much recall.

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Re:Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit by gruez on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:15PM (#29020239)
Can you imagine the shitstorm if was "visible minority, female C-level executive"?
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Re:Spear phishing with Slackbot for fun and profit by tialaramex on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @07:45PM (#29020547)
Some types of fraud do particularly target minority women, because they're less likely to be believed when they report the problem, which improves the odds of success, particularly if there's a "clawback" period and the crooks want the timer to expire before the complaint is believed.

Not so much executives though. Usually elderly widows.

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