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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

A lot of hacking is actually social engineering. It's not hard to get a tech-illiterate person to give up their password, and that's the softest target for an attack.

[–] yokonzo 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer the old “drop a usb in the parking lot”

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Be sure to put a label on it that says "secrets!"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nowadays you'd probably be more likely to get a hit by putting an "Anime titties" label on the drive

[–] Viking_Hippie 38 points 1 year ago

Why would you drop a drive full of world news?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm interested.

[–] xantoxis 8 points 1 year ago

Just put the CEO's name on it and a very recent date. They'll be dying to know what secret information the CEO was carrying around.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer a label that says, "Warning: USB stick contains scary virus. Do not plug into a computer"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are usb sticks that can kill your pc by getting charged and then discharging all the electricity at once to your pc so no sandbox will save you in situations like those.

[–] creditCrazy 3 points 1 year ago

Me: Plugs USB into throwaway computer. Computer: dies. Me: "well that's a pretty boring virus!"

[–] UnculturedSwine 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or even jaded tech savvy people. I work in IT and there have been a number of times that I have witnessed or heard about people who know better causing an incident because they're burnt out or irate.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Wait a second...I don't give a shit about this company."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

This seems like there is an idea for a joke or a comic here somewhere...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Happy employees are less likely to be socially engineered? Wow shocker

[–] CurlyMoustache 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's a good point! I like the way you think! What is your password?

[–] Frozengyro 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's *******, what's yours?

Edit: that's cool, Lemmy blocks it out!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ah, cool, let me try:

iWantToSuckFrozengyro'sToes69

[–] creditCrazy 1 points 1 year ago

Oh so that's why Lemmy sensors my f words

[–] son_named_bort 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am so sick of everyone asking me for my password with no spaces or capitals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

W h A t I s Y o U r P a S s W o R d ?