@thurrott I have been observing Windows security for past 17 to 20 years now from: Bidirectional Firewall in SP2, Kernel Patch Guard, ASLR in Vista, Secure Boot, TPM2, Pluton. Yet, Windows PC's still become easily compromised. With more babyboomers heading into retirement in the coming decade, the biggest threat is #crypto#scamming. This is where I hope Microsoft puts a lot of effort with #AI on social engineering and fighting the Windows support scams to protect the elderly.
@ljrk@lexd0g We live in a world where millions of people don't think twice before logging in on their Online Banking whilst a stranger with bulk access to their machine via a remote support tool claiming to be a rep from Amazon is watching them and that don't even think twice when said scammer pulls some cheap XSS on the UI to convince someone to wire thousands to said scammer...
The Associated Press just served me an ad for fake anti-virus. The entire page was taken over, and forwarded to the malicious site, within seconds of opening the news article, every time.
An ad blocker isn't just something to hide some annoying eyesores, it's a vital layer of security.
If you have friends or family who might fall for fake AV or "windows technical the department" scams, they need an ad blocker. No site they visit can be considered "safe" unless it simply doesn't have ads.
At what point while dreaming up utopic futures where robots perform all the menial hard labor for no money leaving humanity to pursue meaningful lives of leisure writing music and making art did my parents generation fuck up and instead create the opposite
IMO, they've been admitting, they are not.
They are calling 4 legislation 2 limit their liability: #IdentityTheft, #CopyrightViolations, #Scamming, etc.
Each one has, maybe, the potential 2..