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@gembu-tortuesouscafeine
Hi and welcome!
This is a multi-fandom blog (and stuff), but each fandom is tagged. Sometimes 18+ post/reblog.
Here is a link to my fics on Ao3
on Tumblr : #tortuefic
(911 ; Star Trek TOS ; The Witcher and more ; French and English..)
Creeping
How did you get hacked?
I tried to pirate a game and did so wrong.
The thing about hackers, scammers, fraudsters-- is that they cast a very wide net knowing they'll get a few suckers caught in it. Let's say 10,000 people get an email saying "YOÜVE W0N!🤩 CLiCK N⁰W!?!" 9,997 of them delete it. For the three people who get sucked in, it's life ruining.
They rely on the fact that, at some point, they are going to get you while you're not thinking clearly. Maybe you're sick. Or tired. Or work is stressful. Or you just had a fight with someone and you're mad. Your kid is going through something, your dog is at the vet, your car broke down, you got fired. Or you're in the middle of planning a big event, or you're so super excited for a convention-- and something comes across your desk. Maybe it's an email, or a phone call, a link, a text, a file. But for whatever reason you're not thinking 100% clearly and you don't question it, you trust for a minute and that's all that they need. You are now one of those three caught in the net.
And now you're actually on their list of suckers! They will return to you over and over and over and over again for more, because hey! You fell for it once. They're counting on that your grandma who answered a scam call and provided her credit card number once WILL be scammable again. Maybe not right away, maybe not the same way, but they'll get her. (And more often than not, they're right.)
I think most people are inclined to want to trust one another. Or sometimes we're curious. Or we think, "Wow, I didn't know it would be this easy!" not stopping to ask WHY it's so easy to get something good for free.
I work at a financial institution and I help people all the time who have been hacked and lost hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. They are always terrified- will I get my money back? Am I safe?- but they are also consistently ashamed and embarrassed. They feel guilty for having trusted and for not having stopped to think for a second longer. They verbally berate themselves. "I'm so stupid. How could I have fallen for it?"
Currently I'm only out about $300, which I'm being told I'll get back. That number could go up-- I'm still working on securing everything. Do you know how many passwords I had stored in my browser? 192. I have no idea how many of those had a valid card attached, but so far one account was plenty to steal a couple hundred bucks from me. And I do feel stupid, and embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated. Scared. The hacker messaged everyone I had recently messaged on discord as well as every channel in every server to @/everyone with instructions to download their Spyware. Every single person I talk to knows I fell for something dumb.
It's embarrassing, it's upsetting, and I dont even know the full scope of what more is going to happen. I had tax documents on my computer-- how much of my identity is now in their hands? I've locked my credit and placed fraud alerts everywhere, but how safe am I? Who else is at risk now because of me? What other files do they have from me?
In this case, I happen to know that a number of people did what I did. I've seen a number of threads from others who ALSO tried to download tomodachi life from github. (For the record, this was not the floralith link.) I was excited, I was in a hurry. I thought, "this is so quick and easy and now I can play!" I didnt question why in the hell it would EVER be so easy. I haven't had a virus on my computer since I was a young teen, and then I went and installed a bunch of Trojans whilst going "la la la." Incredibly stupid stuff.
But that's the thing, these people are constantly TRYING to catch someone, anyone, YOU, and they count on that eventually, EVENTUALLY, someday they'll dangle just the right bait for you to latch on to. And in my case it was a fishy video game download.
it is INCREDIBLY easy to get scammed. no matter how safe or smart you think you are. you are more likely to get scammed than not.
i almost did this exact same thing in january of this year. i'd just applied for SSA disability and a day or two after i got an legitimate looking email saying they needed additional documents. i check my email first thing in the morning so i was physically tired and stressed in every way possible and in pain from still being post-surgical and i was scared of screwing up this process.
i downloaded the attached file. the only thing that saved me was my computer asking if i was sure i wanted to run this program.
what program? i thought this was a pdf?
no. turns out the icon was a pdf but the file type was something i wasn't familiar with.
i went back to the email and sure enough the sender was some stupid gibberish.
i dodged a bullet by an unspeakably slim margin. it terrifies me how legit the email had looked, it was properly formatted with correct spelling and grammar and had all the right logos and headers and it went to my focused inbox. this was not designed to filter people out. it terrifies me how they even knew i'd just applied and to try this.
i've had friends who've lost thousands to scams that got them at the wrong time.
it doesn't matter who you are, how protected you feel, how many defenses you've got in place, how locked down your shit seems, they will get you. it may not ruin your life, but in some way to some degree you will get got.
You (and I) are not immune to social engineering.
This kitchen is designed for anyone whose favorite hobbies include baking sourdough, raising artisanal chickens, and ignoring the existence of the microwave.
Source: Country Living Magazine, April 1982.
i love when they just look at each other
A summer holidays cartoon for the Guardian
You can reverse the flow of Mako if you concentrate
The sheer confidence required to wear every single primary color simultaneously in the form of multiple, overlapping geometric knit patterns is staggering.
Bajoran whale? Trophy taken by a Cardassian and left hung up in the station as symbol of Bajoran strength?
The teeth aren't pointy, it's not a predator. It's something non-violent that the Cardassians took and killed and displayed.
This is from an end of the set they didn't show often, where Sisko enters the Prom if he comes from his quarters.
s1e10 The Nagus (the one when Nog drops out of school and Jake teaches him to read)
These tags intrigued me enough that I went out to find it. Here it is: the Cardassian Sushi Ad.
The passion between universes
Old Spock kisses little-cutie Jim 💋
Summer night
The sheer, unadulterated joy radiating from this family over a major household appliance is truly a relic of a bygone era. Even the dog is entirely captivated, though he’s probably just disappointed it's not a giant mechanical bone dispenser.
Source: Better Homes & Gardens, 1965.
congratulations on your wikipedia page :)
Holy shit 🥲 Thank you for bringing it to my attention. This is amazing! If you were involved in creating and improving the article, I am deeply touched and grateful!
No one has linked it?!
Lolling forever at the article picture, which was taken by Brian Gratwicke in the rainforest of Ranomafana back in 2014 during the ACSAM 2 (A Conservation Strategy for the amphibians of Madagascar) meeting. Pretty standard photo of my face to be honest, very good.
