"Paul Krugman is implicating himself by talking about being the victim of a crime" is not the funny or clever take you think it is.
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having someone hack your computer and download images like that could legitimately ruin your life, because as a society we're a lot more interested in using images like that to ruin people's lives than they are in protecting kids from abuse.
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some. there are a lot of, "haha he shouldn't have admitted this, lol" takes out there though.
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People who fall for these scams don't feel like they're being lax, they feel like they're being vigilant and proactive Fear is the exact mindset they prey on
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The issue is ignorance, not "laxness" In fact if Krugman were lax enough to let all his landline calls go to voicemail he probably wouldn't have any problem here at all
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I don't see the benefit in dunking on people for being stupid/ignorant as a moral failing, especially when it's a major cultural generation gap like boomers and the Internet (where I've frequently been shocked by how dumb some otherwise smart people can become)
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In this case it almost certainly worked because Krugman thinks he's responsibly delegated his online security to people who understand it - he probably does in fact have a paid package from McAfee or whatever and assumed that's who the scammers were
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