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56 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aeneas 9h \ on: Jor almost lost a lot of BTC from a Signal scam bitcoin
Suspicious or not, it is completely true that the "mind has no firewall." Bad actors want to catch you acting without thinking—and how the fuck can any security protect you from pressing send yourself?
Everyone thinks they would "never" do that, but people will do anything if the narrative in their mind makes it the logical conclusion. The point of social engineering is precisely to weave that narrative so that you fuck up irreversibly.
That said, this is easy to avoid when you control who can access you and where: it would be kind of weird for "Mom" to be writing to you from Nostr.
a useful strategy, especialy in the age of AI, is to verify the identity of the entity pinging u thru one or two additional medium(s): physical, digital, or virtual (see: digital vs virtual);
simple example: a friend's mother got called by an impersonator of her son, who said "mom, i got into an accident, i am in a hospital, i need money for a lawyer;" luckily, the father called the son directly on his other phone before the distraught mother sent the funds over;
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good points
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