You are the idiot for believing that anyone who visits this Forum implicitly has to know details about particular social engineering attacks. Excluding the people who write a post particularly for Signature Campaign post counts for obvious reasons, a lot of people visiting do not have any ADVANCED knowledge about technology. This is like someone talking you down for acting surprised that a particular pest attacked your apple tree, you idiot, how did you not know, the pest has been around for longer than you exist!
Advanced?
There is nothing advanced about this, what are you talking about. This is as basic as it gets, as knowing where the brake pedal is in a car. If you do not know where the brake pedal is, then don't drive a car. Most people are using technology without knowing anything at all about it, they are fucking idiots so don't provide excuses for idiocy.
Complain about them downloading all kinds of unknown files and opening them up, that is like picking up things off the floor in the middle of Times Square and licking them to later be surprised by an Emergency Room visit. But what you do does not make any sense, your post only gives 'look how obviously intelligent I am, you peasants' feelings.
Basic knowledge about security is not a sign of any intelligence, it is a sign of
basic education. Tolerating stupidity breeds more stupidity, this is why we are in the situation where we are. If people were not permitted to use these things without having basic competency, 99% of all hacks would have never happened. Instead people celebrate that others are incompetent, but hey at least they know how to open Instagram so at least their intelligence got that going for them. The primary reason for which people do this is because they are surrounded by technologically illiterate people or they themselves are extremely uneducated in technology or other areas. Being a coward instead of admitting your errors is not something to be prideful of.
This kind of behavior will lead to a future where you will need to do an identity check to access any kind of technological devices, smartphone or desktop. People will be screened for sufficient technology competency to allow any kind of use except what is provided to them either through corporate or government mandate. But hey, let's tolerate stupidity and incompetency I am sure it will work out just fine we are absolutely not half way there to this.
Many of the people on this forum are so uneducated, they act surprised by all sorts of shit that has existed for decades. Nothing about this case is new, nothing about the method of hacking is new, and nothing at all is new about it simply because it happens on a new platform. To the other idiots, stop shitposting:
1) This is a basic social engineering attack variant.
2) This is a basic method of compromise, not any different from downloading a malicious file from anywhere else.
3) This happens on platforms of any kind, just because it is LinkedIn that does not mean this is something new.
4) Keeping your crypto on the same computer that you use for this kind of thing is nothing new.
Anyone who is surprised by any of this is just a shitposting idiot. Users should get an education about the basics of technology before they start shitposting about all the great benefits of Bitcoin and other aspects that they allegedly understand. Anyone who can be surprised by something like this does not even understand 1% of what Bitcoin is, no matter what AI-boosted bullshit they write here.
