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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do::The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
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For all the older folk pointing fingers: “But because Gen Z relies on technology more often, on more devices, and in more aspects of their lives, there might just be more opportunities for them to encounter a bogus email or unreliable shop”
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Bad article that makes it difficult to find the study they’re citing.
However. It would not surprise me if true. I’m sorry but so many of you GenZ are the most gullible people I’ve even seen.
Maybe we millenials are good at not being scammed because we grew up during the infancy of the internet. Our mistakes were not punished as severely. There was no widespread PayPal, cashapp, venmo or stuff like that. At worst we’d lose items in WoW that wouldnt matter in 6 months anyway because the new expanaion would come. These days a kid will lose his knife in CSGO somehow valued at $600.
Still makes me sad to see that MLM scams are thriving within all generations. Just heartbreaking.
Ah yes, its time to release TaylorSwiftAlbum.exe and FamousKpopBand.bat
Kids these days cant tell which download button is the real one
That’s why you a need a package manager
A package manager for piracy?
Yes, it’s called torrenting software. If you are just downloading regular things using a “download” button, that’s amateur piracy.
Why not sail the usenet ocean?
I rather be free pirate than a paid pirate
Running modified executables you find on torrent sites seems worse
Software is software. You’re downloading shady software off the Internet anyway, but there’s one key difference:
- Torrent sites (such as The Pirate Bay) usually have systems of trusted uploaders. These are marked with a green/purple skull next to the file in search results.
- A torrent with a large number of seeders (think: hundreds or thousands) is less likely to contain a virus because nobody honest would seed a malware torrent and it’d cost a lot to fake that many seeders across the world.
- Torrenting software verifies the integrity of downloaded data. It uses a cryptographic hash function for this so it’s impossible for a seeder to send you a tampered file (that is different from the file you intended to download). When you use a torrent file or magnet link, it contains the hash of the file so if what you receive does not match the hash then the torrenting software will discard it.
These are marked with a green/purple skull next to the file in search results.
do you think gen-z is able to somehow hover over the icons to see the tooltip and understand what these skulls are for when they’re using their phone for everything?
Who is torrenting stuff on their PHONE?!
(Unless using it to control their PC remotely)
