Turns out Gen Z are more prone to online scams than boomers

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Ape Fist posted:

I was lectured by a zoomer about how "The internet is much harder to use these days, and was far less complex when I was young.", and me who literally studied UX design staring blankly at them knowing with 100% certainty they were chatting absolute poo poo. A lot of Zoomers are massive, massive kruges too.

lmao actually, young people, I studied UX, and

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I don't blame gen z for not giving a gently caress about computers, look what it did to prior generations

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Cabal Ties posted:

One of my first experiences of online trolling was joining some goons in an online mmp browser based game, some light rpg thing.

In the game was a public chat bar and the learned goon I was playing with typed six asterisks into the chat then added �oh cool it hides your password when you type it into chat�
Cue several usernames and passwords appearing in chat suddenly as people tried the trick.

I�m sure that sorta thing is old hat these days but this was 20 years ago so I�m not sure much has actually changed. My eyes were opened that day. To a new way to loot.

social engineering works!

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Gelf posted:

You just made me remember something, I haven't thought about in ~20 years!
Sister downloaded a virus from limewire which made the computer speakers randomly neigh like a horse, and intermittently make the CD drive open and close several times in a row.
Those were the days!

lmao

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