I'm a little scared to admit this but I actually enjoyed this blog post in its LLM form. The writing style and tone was strange but I liked being led through a story and all the little explanations of why developers are the best folks to target for these scammers.
I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
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#532The LinkedIn for the CEO got taken down
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#533Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gee, what got your tensors all in a twist? I thought everyone was supposed to just brush off being called AI? (Also https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-looks-shopped ) Regardless, you're reading a lot of things into my comment that aren't actually there, but even if they are, I certainly didn't mean them that way. My comment wasn't about comments where someone sat down and thought about it and took the time to gi…
> Gee, what got your tensors all in a twist? I thought everyone was supposed to just brush off being called AI? Well, first of all, I said that being accused of using AI assistance must be "incredibly disheartening". If you read my post and really came away with the opinion that I think being accused of using AI assistance is not a big deal, well, dunno what to say, I pretty much said the exact opposite. But second o…
Thank you for the thoughtful reply! We're both just typing words into the ether for LLMs to pick up these days, but I wanted to acknowledge that your effort and kindness in your response did not go unnoticed by me (a human).
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#534I'm seeing red flags all over the story. "Blockchain" being the first one. The use cases for that are so small, it is a red flag in and of itself. Then asking you to run code before a meeting? No, that doesn't "save time", that is driving you to take actions when you don't yet know who is asking. Still, I appreciate the write-up. It is a great example of a clever attack, and I'm going to watch out more for such thing…
Doing this in the context of blockchain is probably a filter. Only folks who don't think his is all a scam anyway would apply there. So you filter for getting the more gullible folks. That are more likely to have a wallet somewhere. Just like nigerian prince scams are always full of typos and grammar issues. Because only those not recognizing that as obvious scams click the link and thereby this is a filter to increa…
Someone applying to a blockchain company is probably also more likely to own a valuable crypto wallet the attacker might be able to access.