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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social

You can patch software, but you can't patch people. Social engineering will always work because human brain is loaded with forever-day vulnerabilities...

jun 20, 2025, 7:16 pm • 44 7

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social

Sometimes I think that the big phishing operations have probably developed a more applicable & empirically tested understanding of human motivation and cognition than psychologists... Tens of thousands of behavioral A/B tests a day...and that would be a low number.

jun 20, 2025, 7:17 pm • 23 5 • view
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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social

You can patch a lot of social-engineering vulnerabilities, but the patches don't always stay installed or get used consistently.

jun 20, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view