The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.
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Install our software! Just pipe a curl download of some random script into a root shell, it’ll be fine.

@Bitrot scams no longer mean malware anymore. Phishing is also a thing for example. And hiding full URLs from a browser’s bar doesn’t help with this either

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lol I got trolled by that once. Luckily they just did rm -rf / instead of hacking me.

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