If I wanted to phish for personal information that I could use for other attacks, I would set up a public service where people could send all their apparent scams and then go looking for all the personal data that is leaking through.
I could even make it seem legit by using the collected data to block any of my competitors, and only “accidentally” allowing through the attacks that I make or that are made by my real customers.
Thank you for leaving a comment, appreciate it! I'm trying to understand what you're saying.
It seems like you are suggesting our database (public service) could be used for our own benefits? By "our own benefits", you are suggesting https://antiphish.ai can take advantage from the screenshots users uploaded, because now we know what scams are running hot in the market, and then we can cross check what works and what does not work.
And because this is a Chrome extension, we can now use the insight we've collected to block other scam attacks and only deliver the scam attacks that AntiPhish.AI makes or AntiPhish.AI's customers make. By customers, you mean other scammers that has a professional relationship with AntiPhish.AI, with the purpose of delivering effective scams using AntiPhish.AI's insight.
I really like your way of thinking, I'm pretty sure you won't fall for scams easily, because you surely do have a sharp mind and good at connecting the dots.
The truth about AntiPhish.AI is, we've been working in the security industry for many years, and always wondered how it feels like to have a company of our own. Especially tech company, and because helping others to spot scams seems like a valuable and profitable business, that's why we chose to pursue this path.
While we can write good softwares, but we're not so good at marketing. This is why we created this tool, this post, after learning the fact that one of the things we can do for marketing a business is creating free tools.
That's how this idea comes alive, no crazy 3d chess agendas, just plain, SEO marketing effort, with a hope to provide some values for people that could fall victims to scams.
I hope this clears up the intention of why we created this tool. Cheers and have a great day!
For me, the most important thing is to think about what data you’re sharing with third parties, and how that data might be abused.
Or maybe that third party doesn’t abuse it themselves, but they’re vulnerable to someone else stealing it, and landing you back into HaveIBeenPwned yet once again (I think I’m up to 17 times on HIBP so far).
I think about this any time I use a service like DeleteMe, or Optery, or 1Password, or any other third party service where I might be sharing potentially sensitive information. And I very carefully select the third party services that I use which might have sensitive data shared with them.
Then I like to try to ensure that I minimize what data that I share with these third parties, especially data that is shared automatically — like a log of every single URL that I visit.
I’m a lot more willing to use tools that work 100% locally and don’t share any data with any remote service, even if those tools do not provide all the same levels of service that can be provided by the remote service. For example, I would never voluntarily enable something like Microsoft Recall, but I might be willing to use a local-only program that recorded periodic snapshots of every URL that I visit and make that information locally searchable, so that I can roll the clock back and see what I may have been doing at some time in the past.
The problem here is not that the data is collected, or that it is collected locally, but how that data might be able to be abused by others once it is shared with a third party.
There is another factor that everyone is ignoring here. Some people are just much more sensitive to that kind of pain. If you Lymphadema, or especially Lipodemia, you are much more likely to experience a lot of pain even when a manual sphygmomanometer is being used.
The Omron BP7000 doesn’t hurt me that much, and I measure mine every morning and every evening. But it does hurt my wife, and she has both conditions.
Funny. My family moved in the summer between 5th and 6th grade. But they didn’t have enough money to pay for my school lunches — my dad was a poorly paid teacher at the local University, and I don’t remember what poorly paid work my mom had.
But I discovered that they allowed students to work as dishwashers, and if you did that, then you got your lunch for free — and even allowed to get seconds. That also kept me off the playground, where I tended to get bullied a lot.
So, for me, that was actually a good experience in grade school.
Sure, I had to deal with the super hot water and the super high pressure sprayer, but that didn’t take long. And I could quickly and efficiently load the trays into the commercial grade steamer that sanitized everything. I felt good about doing that job well, and I felt like I got a good reward for it.
Thinking back, I don’t know why they allowed a 6th grader to work as a dishwasher. That was probably illegal according to the child labor laws. But I think it worked well for me.
I think as a society we've come quite far, but if a kid wants to wash some dishes at school under adult supervision for a limited amount of time, I don't see a lot wrong with it. Obviously, it would be better if we could just not make families pay for school lunches, but that's another topic that isn't terribly relevant to this discussion.
Do you think you learned any valuable lessons that carried into adulthood? I started working in 9th grade as a busboy/washer and look fondly back on those memories; not only as a way of getting out of the house (bad family situation) but also as a look into the lives of the adults that worked there. As an adult now, I feel sorry for the middle age people who worked there because they obviously didn't really want to be there, but they needed a job and frying eggs as the local greasy spoon was apparently what was available. But I'm happy now and I get a small amount of comfort knowing that I can go back to that line of work if I ever found myself in a bind and needed to make an extra $2k. I'm sure my adult body won't handle it as well, but mentally, I think I'd be prepared.
At least where we were, you needed a special permit to work if you were under 18, and at the time that would allow kids as young as 14 into the workforce. But, they could only work part-time. I did that later during the summer between my sophomore and junior high school years, to buy a car from my parents.
But as a dishwasher in 6th grade, I didn’t have any adult supervision. I worked alone in there. And I don’t think that kids 16 or under should be working without supervision. And I didn’t have a youth work permit, which was most likely illegal.
I don’t know that I learned a great deal as a dishwasher that would be useful in the adult workplace, other than how to efficiently and quickly load a dishwasher. I guess if I had to go back to that kind of work, I could do it again.
Ironically, the car I bought from my parents was a 1974 Chevy Malibu Classic with a 350ci V8 engine, and if I had been inclined to do street racing, that would have been a perfect car to use for that. But I was a straight arrow and I had no flipping idea what I had in my hands, so I just drove it calmly (well, mostly calmly) to and from school and nothing else.
A couple years later, when I was in college, I wasn’t driving it at all, because there was no reasonable parking on campus, and was effectively forced to take the campus bus. So, I ended up letting the car rot, and we ended up paying a towing company $50 to get it out of the driveway and haul it off for scrap.
At Amazon, that would be called Unregretted Attrition.
So, teams are known to hire people, fully expecting to turn around and fire them before the end of the year. That way, they can provide the churn that is required, without actually losing any of the people they might want to keep.
I didn’t actually see that on either of the teams I worked on, but I certainly heard plenty about it.
Correction, the fat cats who own ERCOT don’t like that.
Your regular run of the mill Texan may not care one way or the other, most times. But if they get into a crunch where their electric bills are much higher, I assure you that they will care.
>ERCOT is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation,[11][12] and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.[13]
You are uninformed. ERCOT is heavily influenced (“owned”) by Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) and market makers that are profit seeking entities. This is true of all ISOs for all intents and purposes. It is the primary reason why the U.S. grid is slow to innovate/change, e.g., implementing distributed generation participation in wholesale markets, etc.
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