Solved A good amount of money has been stolen from my bank account bypassing the double factor authentication.

Espionage724 said:
When I see random bank emails, I usually go straight to the bank website via manual URL entry (not from email click) and check stuff out. I kind of wish some of those large deposits were real :p
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How can you be sure that *usually* I don't do the same ? Is it so hard for you to believe that having a moment of low attention is human and natural ? Paranoic peoples can't accept that their minds can be vulnerable.
 
eternal_noob said:
Everyone has moments of weakness, and that's ok. The problem is that you're trying to blame the bank for your moment of weakness.
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What I'm trying to do is to avoid being overwhelmed by the guilt you're trying to instill in me due to your excessive intransigence. I take my part of responsibility, and I don't think I'm 100% responsible, because, as I repeat, I believe systems can always be more secure than how they are. It's just a matter of how much money you're willing to invest to convince yourself that you've created a system that's sufficiently secure, not to mention bulletproof. And you believe this because you've invested in it. For this reason, you might not see its weaknesses. Doing so would put you in the awkward position of having to spend even more and more money,probably going into an endless cycle,because...there can't be any system that's 100% secure,connected or disconnected.
 
astyle said:
Until you read about the University of Minnesota Linux Kernel debacle. Even Open Source is not immune to miscreants creating a mess. This is why you gotta keep your eyes peeled for signs of trouble no matter where you are.

Paranoia at breakfast, lunch and dinner can be exhausting, but yeah, there are people who actually do that for fun, and know a lot about it.
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there are quite some out there, but that is not the point. My point is: when someone is approaching me that some open source project is seriously flawed and the correspondent claims to be some kind of l33t h4x0r I wanna see proof. Then, talking how a transition to the Rust programming language would solve that problem just disqualifies that person. The problem is the supply chain, which has nothing to do with the underlying technology, because a backdoor will then simply be used using the Rust programming language.
 
ZioMario said:
I'm trying to do is to avoid being overwhelmed by the guilt you're trying to instill in me due to your excessive intransigence.
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It wasn't my intention to make you feel guilty. Rather, I wanted to make it clear to you that you should change your perspective on things so that you don't become a victim again.

If you want me to stop posting here, just say a word.
 
eternal_noob said:
It wasn't my intention to make you feel guilty. Rather, I wanted to make it clear to you that you should change your perspective on things so that you don't become a victim again.

If you want me to stop posting here, just say a word.
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I see a widespread mentality that overly "punishes" single individuals, rather than seeing the issue in its complexity, implicating a multitude of actors who also bear responsibility. The problem isn't you. And perhaps it's not any individual. It's the way you (plural) think, which is too focused on evaluating the behavior of individuals, losing sight of the complexity of the issue, which instead concerns many individuals.
 
rootbert said:
there are quite some out there, but that is not the point. My point is: when someone is approaching me that some open source project is seriously flawed and the correspondent claims to be some kind of l33t h4x0r I wanna see proof. Then, talking how a transition to the Rust programming language would solve that problem just disqualifies that person. The problem is the supply chain, which has nothing to do with the underlying technology, because a backdoor will then simply be used using the Rust programming language.
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There are plenty of people who talk nonsense, but it takes an actual subject matter expert to see that. The cyber security field is full of people like that. When I see ads for cyber security services, I just roll my eyes. It's like buying a door that can withstand a hit from a Patriot missile when the rest of the house is made of straw, and inside, there's nothing worth stealing - because it was all spent on that fancy door.
 
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