Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO

Re:Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO by subtra3t on Sunday February 04, 2024 @01:32PM (#39252948)

I think many people would expand the word crypto to cryptocurrency and not cryptography. We can argue on and on about which is the "correct" expansion but in my opinion a word's current meaning should be the most popular association people have of it.

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Re:Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO by MeImCounting on Sunday February 04, 2024 @06:59PM (#39255809)

Only on HN do I see people saying crypto actually mean like bitcoin or whatever. The rest of the technical world still knows crypto as cryptography.

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Re:Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO by subtra3t on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:26AM (#39257989)

Only on HN do I find people who actually know what cryptography is. Almost all the people I know have never heard of it, but all of them have heard of bitcoin, and most have heard the word crypto being used with reference to cryptocurrencies.

That's not to say that my experience somehow means more than yours or is more valid. But I personally think my experience is more representative of the average layperson. You're welcome to disagree.

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Re:Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO by MeImCounting on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:45AM (#39258074)

Sure the non technical world is (sadly) more familiar with Bitcoin.

I specifically said the technical world. Most people I know are technical to some degree and almost all of them would assume cryptography when they hear the word "crypto".

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