I think this kinda nails it. Most of the internet young people browse is pretty safe. Back in the late 90s/early aughts it was way more wild west. Video streaming sites were sketchy, downloads were sketchy. Popups and banner ads were sketchy. Barely any spam filters in your email. You learned to be careful or you ended up bricking you parent's computer and getting huge phone bills from dialer trojans.
Now explain to them how DNS and basic networking works! š
This. The vast majority of scams are done through social engineering, its not "leet-hackers". Knowing how to use a phone or computer doesn't mean you can't be tricked into panicking about a situation that isn't real.
Yeah my niece and nephew are late teens and have had a computer since they were like 10. They are mostly clueless if anything goes wrong or even how to use the most basic of functions. These days these computers are designed to be as mainstream as possible. You can basically do pretty much everything as long as you can turn it on. Unless you are getting a virus, they will keep running without issues for years.
Yeah, I think the "sweet spot" is like the bulk of us on Era, the kind of folks who were around during the late 90s and early 2000s and during the advent of most of these scams, not sixteen year old kids who have fiddled with iPads since they were five and generally trust and accept much of the internet at face value since it's been integrated with every facet of their life since childhood.
At the same time, measuring it by dollar amounts is going to be confounded by the fact that most teenagers don't have as much money to lose to scammers compared to older folks.Kind of a BS article. The under-20s had both the smallest absolute amount lost to scams and the smallest absolute increase since 2017, by far:
The headline's only taking about the percentage increase. 758% sounds scary but puts them at the same level as the twentysomethings in 2017. Focus should be on the massive nine-figure jumps in every other age group.
I work in a High School. You would not believe how many kids even struggle with stuff as basic as Microsoft Word. They are just so used to texting for typing and such.
I was reading something the other day where a teacher was talking about how their undergrads were having issues navigating file structures for the PC. I wonder if that is a widespread thing and that it really is hard for a lot of young people to use a computer.
Jokes on them, because all my security answers are joke answers, so I don't even remember them.
I'm kind of surprised. I really didn't think that this would be something that ends up happening.
As I stated in a post on this page some even struggle with basic office programs like Word. They get better as they move through High School, but it is amazing when they reach us in Grade 9/10 and lack a ton of computer skills.
Its a direct consequence of mobile device manufacturers just completely burying any access to file structure and everything being displayed in the same apps that are downloading it. People spend 99% of their time interacting with dynamically served content in software portals
It's very weird. I was in school when they were pushing for computers to be in every home. They were getting laptops for us to check out. Then afterward they just kind of expected kids to have them at home in some form.
You think it is just that the prevalence of mobile is the cause of that or is it that they don't have access to computers? I remember so many of my classing growing up taking place in a computer lab even if it was to type papers. I also had multiple classes to actually teach me how to use a computer and get used to typing. I had just assumed that would have continued at this point. But maybe it didn't because it felt useless or schools just couldn't have computer labs?
That makes a lot of sense. I don't have an iPhone but I've been told that accessing the file structure is more difficult than it needs to be. To be honest, even on Android I find it annoying to navigate the structure and prefer to connect it to the PC to navigate if I need to. But I also just preferred everything on the PC compared to mobile. Feels far more comfortable.
Hm I guess people will probably keep preferring whatever platform they started learning on. Everything feels so much easier on a desktop for me. Maybe part of that is cause I had a school like yours. Multiple classrooms would have a cabinet with a stock of laptops for us to take and use during the class before checking them back in. The convenience of phones will be really hard to fight against
I at least know in my school district the middle schools do have computer labs. I think the real issue is since phones are so much more convenient, kids kind of refuse to really learn how to use computers properly.
Really? The past year I've been applying for jobs which I haven't done since 2006. The scam jobs I've applied to give it away almost instantly with their approach.
Ah gotcha, that makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, so many of them redirect you to their apps. The experience just isn't as good as it is on desktop to me. The apps that just run a crappy browser inside of them are the absolute worst though.
