The absolute worst thing about the Krugman thing is all the right-wing geeks pretending they don't know how this phone scam works and pretending they think there actually is CP on the guy's hard drive and the FBI needs to be called
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Replying to @HandymanDigital
Not really, the whole point of the scam is they tell you they are "your security service" - they say they're from McAfee or Norton or whatever and bet on the idea you don't actually know how those services work
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This happens to older people ALL THE TIME It's an extremely profitable grift that relies on people having a profound discomfort with technology and a tendency to defer to human "experts" It gets thousands of people every year
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And yeah it's frustrating but it's also obnoxious to victim-blame Someday you'll be 70 years old and doing incredibly stupid things because you're from a generation that was never accustomed to cranial implants from a young age Have some humility
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In this case the most vulnerable people are the ones who ARE really worried about security but don't know much about it, and DID buy a paid "security service" (the premium version of Norton or McAfee or whatever) without really knowing how it works
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And both sides are kind of to blame here, because, say, Norton actually does advertise their highest level service ("Norton 360 with LifeLock") as though it actually were some concierge service with IT professionals monitoring your online activity 24/7
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