Osmose

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All I'm saying is that we never called it an AIM hack or MSN hack if you downloaded an exe file from a stranger and ran it, but somehow it's a Discord hack that you thought that dude asking for feedback on a game was legit?


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@Osmose

It shouldn't be called a Discord hack because that implies it's Discord's fault that you were offered a shady file, and the only ways to prevent that fully (Discord already does what it can) are too restrictive.

It should be your responsibility, and you should have been given instruction at some point about the risks from someone you trust. When I was a kid on the early internet it was reinforced often in community rules and as warnings from older folks online how to be safe and to view offered executable files in particular with suspicion. I get the sense that the path a lot of people take to getting online nowadays doesn't often include those kinds of warnings or interactions anymore. I think this is an online cultural failing rather than a personal failing of millions of new internet users.

My beef is mostly with misleading people by saying shit like "They hacked my Discord" like it wasn't preventable with learnable security practices.


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