I have a friend who pen tests people near him in real life for fun and then discloses to them how terrible their security is. He has an extremely high hit rate.

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As a pentester, hacking the average person is trivial work unfortunately. Social engineering is nearly 100% success rate vs a purely technical method.

I guess it makes sense when most people really don’t have much that’s worth protecting.

That is why they target those well dressed and at higher end bars

They are creating target packages for people they know they can change the apple ID and get an easy $10,000

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a?mod=tech_lead_pos1

Criminals have now a playbook for the honey pot in every millennial who in face deep in their iphone at clubs, bars, and restaurants