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Are they really that stupid?

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Are they really that stupid?
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 6:40 am
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'.
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 8:16 am
How many would risk hacking a wifi with an SSID of : 5G_FBI_TAP
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 11:06 am
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 1:10 pm
Humans are trusting, not necessarily stupid.
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 1:40 pm
(July 11, 2020 at 1:10 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Humans are trusting, not necessarily stupid.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 2:14 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2020 at 2:44 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(July 11, 2020 at 1:40 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The two are not mutually exclusive.

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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.
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 3:13 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2020 at 3:14 pm by no one. Edit Reason: keyboard gnomes )
[Image: icon_quote.jpg]Ding 6IX Dong:
Humans are trusting, not necessarily stupid.


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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 3:27 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2020 at 4:38 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
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.
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 5:28 pm
It's more out of sloth or convenience, is my take.
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RE: Are they really that stupid?
July 11, 2020 at 5:46 pm
(July 11, 2020 at 3:27 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: 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.

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.

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