It is absolutely insane that 2FA is still the security standard years after everyone became aware of sim swapping
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Most casuals don't even realize that their thickest layer of protection atm is that nobody currently desires to fuck with them
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Kinda funny, but that's a pretty great solution given the market size of the casuals LOL. It's like the perfect capitalism solution (like, way higher ROI to sell a feeling to the ignorant masses than actually solve a problem)
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Expert: "It only works for the people who don't need it" PM: "Yeah but that solves the problem for most people." Expert: "... uhh... that literally makes no sense" Market: it works $$$ Expert, to self: "wow business is COMPLICATED"
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I waste endless breath trying to explain to non-targets that the bad guys care about rich targets. I waste endless breath trying to explain to rich targets that they need to do something about security, as they insist that they're non-targets.
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Some of the biggest targets these days for normal people are streaming service accounts that can be sold
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And a lot of services that offer better options like U2F/Webauthn keys still pester you for a “recovery phone number”
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Similar things are true in a lot of parts of life The main reason aircraft don't run into each other often (outside of airports) is because the sky is relatively very large and planes are relatively very small https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_sky_theory …
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I’m hyper aware that “no one cares” is by far my best defense but it is difficult to figure out an actual good defense when you don’t know shit about tech
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That's always the case and always will be, irrespective of what the attacks and defences are.
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