Long story short, I've always felt like I stole from the casino that day too! :-)
Now the real question is why do prank videos mesmerize people?
The chimp troupes handles randomness and unpredictability, with the 3 inch chimp brain whose hardware hasn't been updated in 100K years, only one way - tell stories. It's our randomness handling hack.
The stories breakdown all the time.
MGM reportedly refused to pay a ransom, resulting in an estimated $100 million in losses and roughly 10 days of system outages affecting reservations, slot machines, room keys and websites. Caesars, in contrast, was reported by the Wall street Journal to have paid $15 million of a $30 million ransom demand and experienced less operational disruption.
james_marks•2h ago
First time I’ve heard the term “vishing” to describe the attack we’ve all seen coming.
electroglyph•2h ago
ChrisMarshallNY•2h ago
wrayjustin•2h ago
Then there's even subcategories that further define some of these, like Spear Phishing, Whaling.
The industry loves its fun naming.
airstrike•1h ago
jerrythegerbil•27m ago
The change in medium (SMS phishing:smishing, voice phishing: vishing, etc…) results in the new more specific term and methodology.
To make the point clear, “email phishing” is similar to “ATM Machine”. Literally redundant, but commonly used in marketing and public comms to make clear the medium for those unfamiliar with the term.
gpm•5m ago
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
Etymologically "phreak" and "fishing" both have nothing to do with email, "phreak" is "phone freak" and I believe it originally described messing with the tones that controlled the telephone system...