2 sats \ 0 replies \ @tony_ 9 Sep \ on: Cost of living in your area? meta
Internet: depends on the speed and such of course.
Pizza: 35,000 sats
Quality Men's Haircut: 53,000 sats
Coffee: 11,000 sats
Gasoline: No idea, I never buy this anymore.
The threat here is they steal you phone number. There is strong evidence that someone can steal your phone number and is willing to sell that as a service for as little as $1,000 (if its t-mobile, other carriers cost more).
Hackers have also offered t-mobile employees as little as $300 to perform sim swaps, and I'd be willing to bet there were some takers near that price point.
Please, whatever you do end up doing, do not rely on SMS for auth. Sim swappers will be all over it if you do.
While I agree with the spirit of your statement, I think its important to remember something. In the same way we expect everyone to be in ultimately in charge of their own health, we simultaneously don't expect everyone to have the same knowledge that a doctor has. It should be clear and obvious to me that something like smoking will damage my health even without education, hence the warning label.
Software engineers and security experts have a duty to make it as easy as possible to do the right thing, and the reality of the situation we have now is that its actually kind of hard for a normal person to practice decent security online.
For example, telling everyone to use a unique password everywhere and simultaneously remember all of them. Its hard to even explain why that is important. Its all far too complex for most people. Especially the elderly. Password managers are a good step but the facts are websites are breaking compatibility with them all the time and it is still hard to use them without paying for a subscription. Passkeys are a good further step. Hopefully we get to a place where no one is expected to have a photographic memory for random strings or pass phrases.
Adblocker is a big one, and pretty easy to use. The biggest problem is that it will break some websites for some people, but as long as you explain how to turn it off and when you might need to, they always seem to love it and it tangibly reduces the chances of being a victim to a scam or drive-by malware.
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