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1. jboy55+Af[view] [source] 2023-07-20 02:13:13
>>thirty+(OP)
My parents vaguely remembered who Kevin Mitnick was when I gave my father my copy of 'Ghost in the Wires' to read.

I told him, this was the 'hacker' of the 80s, read how he managed to 'hack' all these places. My father replied, "I'm pretty sure I won't understand anything he would do". Me, "Just give it a chance, you'll be surprised"

When he gave the book back, I asked my father if anything Kevin did my father wouldn't have understood. My father said, "I understood everything he did". I asked, "Now, when you get a call from someone you don't know claiming to be an authority figure, what do you do?". Father: "Hang up"

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2. dryrun+tl[view] [source] 2023-07-20 03:13:55
>>jboy55+Af
Would there be a modern version of this? I haven't read it and I'm interested, but mostly my parents are getting old, and with AI on the corner, I fear a bit the next level scams.
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3. chris_+7u[view] [source] 2023-07-20 05:01:39
>>dryrun+tl
The modern version is "hang up".
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4. seabas+mw[view] [source] 2023-07-20 05:32:31
>>chris_+7u
The modern version should be 'put down' (does anyone still hang their phone on a wall nowadays?), and an even more modern one would be 'push red button' :)
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