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Tech Fraud Beating Out Social Engineering
The Walking Dude writes "BBC News asked Frank Abagnale if technology is driving the old-school conman into extinction. 'Mr Abagnale really ought to know', as the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can was based on his life. He served five years of a 12 year prison sentence for check fraud before being offered a job with the FBI. 'There may, after all, be life in the old con yet.'"
Two problems with your 1337n355.
1. You use windows.
2. You don't use two-factor authentication.
For two reasons alone you're just a paranoid twat who couldn't draw a threat model to save oneself.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Funny thing is how skeptical some people are, but only towards other 'opinions', ie. the *facts*.
I have family who seem permenantly stuck with the following untruths:
* that Bush is a wise, capable leader maligned by liberal haters of freedom
* that Microsoft is an innovator, maligned by competitors for its success
* that God personally blesses them, and bad things only happen to sinners
* that we orginate from a twinkle in god's eye, despite insurmountable evidence for evolution
* that they are successfully due to just their hard work, not the advantages provided by their economic class and luck
Facts be damned. In many cases it seems that many people have lost their ability to be RATIONALLY skeptical and to consider alternate view points. That's why you'll see sane people change their mind: disasterous in politics, or say they see some value or truth in an alternate viewpoint: the wiggle room exploited by the ones who see this as weakness to be exploited to promote their dogma.
I tell 'ya, it seems all ye olde battles of rational thought are being re-fought. If OnStar didn't depend on satellites, they'd be idiots demanding the flat earth theory be given as much class time as the heliocentric theory. Facts are no longer facts, but strong beliefs to be swayed.
Hey! Look, the monkey is typing on the computer!
"You have liberated me from thought."
What fucking ignorant idiot got mod points to mod fact as Troll. Toooooo many fucking retards have access to keyboards these days. Idiot trolls! Learn the difference between a troll (this post) and a factually based posting (the parent)! Fucking idiots!
Since it's obvious that too many people here are too fucking stupid to use their brain I'll spell it out for the mouth breathers here! One, just because it's on tape doesn't mean it's true; misinformation is a valuable tool. And two, you have to be a serious fuck tard to moderate this down. If you had even half the brain of a retard, you would of replied. But... Three, basd on all of the available facts, this is a very probable sitation, which means those that modded the parent post down are especially fucking dumb.