“pig Butchering”
Hacking - The blowback
Hacking in my day was a positive term for someone who creates or makes new things by poking around. Sometimes, a mistake can lead to a new solution. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were among those during the hobby days of DIY computers before the Mac and PC were invented. People built home computers in their bathtubs. Which eventually led to the Apple II computer.
I had a FB call with a gamer friend. Subject “are there negatives to learning how to hack. He loved the idea and encouraged me. He then shared it with his dad at a family dinner. Dad exploding that 30 something gamer son had friend that robbed him. The dad just now had lost a fortune in a cryptocurrency scam. The irony is that my wife flipped out that I was associating myself with “hacking”. That is why I called my friend to find away to test the idea, which he loves btw.
It is a great object lesson that I can share with my students. I’ve been using the movie October Sky” to illustrate the guilt by association and now I have a direct 2024 example affecting me personally. A cautionary tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg&t=206s
https://www.wired.com/story/pig-butchering-fbi-ic3-2022-report/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seizes-over-112m-funds-linked-cryptocurrency-investment-schemes#:~:text=If%20you%20or%20someone%20you%20know%20is%20a,In%20your%20complaint%2C%20please%20reference%2C%20%E2%80%9CPig%20Butchering%20PSA.%E2%80%9D
“If you or someone you know is a victim, visit www.fbi.gov/cryptoguard , contact your local FBI field office, call 1-800-CALL-FBI, or report it to the IC3.gov. In your complaint, please reference, “Pig Butchering PSA.””
