I have a relative who has had her credit card details stolen on so many occassions that we've lost count.

She clicks every email link. She signs up to "tarot of the day" and "spirit guide" text message scams. She buys things like the GeoCleanse. She's been in MLMs and near-cults. She's never met a grift she didn't fall for.

No amount of user training is ever going to get through to this person.

She'll lose her whole life savings before she takes a moment to imagine that an email from her own personal fairy guide *might* be some sort of scam.

It is tempting to say that if you're silly enough, you deserve what you get. But it isn't true. People who make poor decisions need protection too.

This is who I imagine when I imagine the user who needs protection.

We need regulation.

#security #scams #woowoo #infosec

Trying to protect all of society from the lowest common denominator often makes everything worse for people trying to exert control over their own lives.

You cannot protect people from their own bad decisions without putting them in prison.

@djsumdog @keira_reckons go figure the first response on “my aunt can’t stop getting scammed” is the local jeet saying you can’t protect everyone so just let her get scammed lmao

"local jeet" .. I'm an American. I've always been an American, a legal one at that. The last time I was in India was in the 90s, as a Christian missionary.

You immediately bring my race into things instead of addressing any part of an actual argument. What a fucking horrible response, from what I can only assume is a total pathetic piece of shit. Fuck you and whatever the fuck kind of person is obsessed with viewing everything through the lens of my race. It's everything I fucking hate about Fedi.

@djsumdog @keira_reckons @sapphire In principle I agree with both of the posts you made in this thread.

Unfortunately you shoved your mouth full of the fucking bait so hard that it's impossible to defend you.

@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @keira_reckons @djsumdog @sapphire I really hate to see this because he's a really cool dude

I ignore most of it. I never blocked anyone on Fedi from 2018 until 2023. You can only take so much ya know. And some of those fucks are crazy obsessed and constantly post screenshots and shit. It's really fucking weird and stalkerish.

@djsumdog @keira_reckons @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @sapphire @mischievoustomato Always mute, not block. Blocking allows blockbots to public announce your blocks and leads to more dogpiling.