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Are they really that stupid?
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Several years ago I was visiting my daughter in another state. She was at work when I arrived so I called her to get her Wi-Fi password. It was 'Getyourown'.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius 
How many would risk hacking a wifi with an SSID of : 5G_FBI_TAP
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.  
Humans are trusting, not necessarily stupid.
 (July 11, 2020 at 1:10 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Humans are trusting, not necessarily stupid. The two are not mutually exclusive. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 2:14 pm
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(July 11, 2020 at 1:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The two are not mutually exclusive. They may not be mutually exclusive, but it seems wrong to confuse them with one another or treat them as being positively correlated. Malcolm Gladwell's recent book forwards the idea of "default to truth." People naturally assume honesty and trustworthiness in strangers; not trusting strangers has a paranoid tinge to it. I think being interviewed by a reporter and camera crew perhaps increases our sense of trustworthiness in them, lowering our guard; or perhaps being filmed shifts cognitive recourses towards our appearance on camera, and away from Type 2 thinking (our more logical, calculated, form of thinking). In other words, there are better explanations for the behavior than being stupid.  RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 3:13 pm
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![[Image: icon_quote.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.trackie.com%2Ftrack-and-field%2Fimg%2Flayout%2Ficon_quote.jpg) Ding 6IX Dong:Humans are trusting, not necessarily stupid. Are you new to the planet? RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 3:27 pm
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Fairly recent, yes.
The take away from the video should be that most people use passwords that are easy to remember and easy to figure out, not that they're stupid. 
It's more out of sloth or convenience, is my take.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
(July 11, 2020 at 3:27 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Fairly recent, yes. No, I’m thinking ‘stupid’ is the way to go. If a stranger walks up to you and flat out asks, ‘Tell me your password’, you’d tell them to go piss up a rope. If a stranger asks how you came up with your password, and you tell them it’s your pet’s name plus your birthday and then GIVE them your pet’s name and your birthday, you qualify as a stupid person. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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