Comment on ‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes

• Firipu@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or, bear with me, just send a massive amount of spam mails to leaked mailing lists. Maybe 1 in a million reacts and you scam them (cfr all the “Nigerian prince” scams.

  A looooot less work because the victim’s will contact you themselves. No need to go and “compare which phones show up together and them figure out why they were together and then figure out if it was an affair or not and then contact them in the hopes they care enough to pay ransom”

  I guess your username makes sense.

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  • ParanoidFactoid@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Firipu@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As a high value individual you have to accept that you’ll always be a target. Nobodies like you and me on the other hand? Nobody will bother.

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• agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Will Mulder rescue me then?

  Seriously, that sounds like such a bullshit approach. It’s uneconomical for the criminals. It’s super involved and doesn’t pay that much. Why would anyone do that, if regular fraud is right there to commit.

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  • ParanoidFactoid@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But not like that. And not on a scale that would justify all that investment. These crimes only happen in your mind.

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