alt Hacker NewsYet all of this can be easily defeated with soft language. The basic check "what's the password/verification word" will defeat this every time. This is basically opsec that we taught my grandparents, who were in their 90s. Its doable.
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greygood • today at 4:29 PM
Code words break down emotionally. Many seniors do not reliably trust their own memory during a frightening call
hyperhello • today at 2:40 PM
So they trick the kid out of the password first by calling them and pretending to be the parent.
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Yes but that's more of a mitigation than prevention. It's an additional step, you have to remember to do it, and under the pressure of the situation you might easily forget to do it.