How phishing scams show the need to evolve with technology
source: http://www.libervis.com/article/how-phishing-scams-show-the-need-to-evolve-with-technology
Just as we may talk about the dangers of future technologies when they are put to some negative uses we can talk about the internet as a present and still largely evolving technology and dangers its negative uses pose to other people.
Just as there are movies depicting a future world of highly sophisticated intelligent robots that rebelled against humanity, genetically engineered super humans bringing down tyranny against their inferiors, biological warfare via highly effective engineered viruses and so on there could have been movies in the past depicting a "future" in which internet is used by sophisticated tech-savvy tricksters to get access to people's bank accounts and expensive private data.
That future, of course, is here and we call this practice as "phishing scams".
Read more: http://www.libervis.com/article/how-phishing-scams-show-the-need-to-evolve-with-...
Just as there are movies depicting a future world of highly sophisticated intelligent robots that rebelled against humanity, genetically engineered super humans bringing down tyranny against their inferiors, biological warfare via highly effective engineered viruses and so on there could have been movies in the past depicting a "future" in which internet is used by sophisticated tech-savvy tricksters to get access to people's bank accounts and expensive private data.
That future, of course, is here and we call this practice as "phishing scams".
Read more: http://www.libervis.com/article/how-phishing-scams-show-the-need-to-evolve-with-...
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- Phishing, Future, preparedness
