Interesting article.
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RE: https://chaos.social/@jollysea/115694256001019814
Interesting article. A group distributed a bunch of USB drives for the purpose of seeing how often people check the contents of the drives. Predictably they got a variety of results.
These things make me a little sad, because the security experts always a have the foregone conclusion that scams and abuse are inevitable, and prosocial behavior (wanting to return a device to its owner) is what should be trained out of people.
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RE: https://chaos.social/@jollysea/115694256001019814
Interesting article. A group distributed a bunch of USB drives for the purpose of seeing how often people check the contents of the drives. Predictably they got a variety of results.
These things make me a little sad, because the security experts always a have the foregone conclusion that scams and abuse are inevitable, and prosocial behavior (wanting to return a device to its owner) is what should be trained out of people.
It is also kind of optimistic though, because the findings of the study are that prosocial behavior is resilient even after years and years of messaging warning people not to plug in strange flash drives.
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It is also kind of optimistic though, because the findings of the study are that prosocial behavior is resilient even after years and years of messaging warning people not to plug in strange flash drives.
I don't think living in a maximum security prison of digital paranoia is good for us as a culture
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I don't think living in a maximum security prison of digital paranoia is good for us as a culture
at any rate I think it's clear that trying to train prosocial behavior out of people is just as absurd as trying to train antisocial behavior out of people if not more so, and maybe we can start looking for better solutions
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RE: https://chaos.social/@jollysea/115694256001019814
Interesting article. A group distributed a bunch of USB drives for the purpose of seeing how often people check the contents of the drives. Predictably they got a variety of results.
These things make me a little sad, because the security experts always a have the foregone conclusion that scams and abuse are inevitable, and prosocial behavior (wanting to return a device to its owner) is what should be trained out of people.
@aeva sure. prosocial. absolutely. i would never assume that there is gold on that stick.
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@aeva sure. prosocial. absolutely. i would never assume that there is gold on that stick.
@lritter there were people trying to return the drives to the group that conducted the experiment
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@lritter there were people trying to return the drives to the group that conducted the experiment
@lritter I also think curiosity is an admirable trait
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@lritter I also think curiosity is an admirable trait
@aeva i'd be a hipocrite if i disagreed ;-)