We still can find errors in every phishing message that goes out, but they’re getting cleaner.
Whether or not this is true today, it is a statement in which I put near-zero credence.
Harry had unthinkingly started to repeat back the standard proverb that there was no such thing as a perfect crime, before he actually thought about it for two-thirds of a second, remembered a wiser proverb, and shut his mouth in midsentence. If you did commit the perfect crime, nobody would ever find out—so how could anyone possibly know that there weren’t perfect crimes? And as soon as you looked at it that way, you realized that perfect crimes probably got committed all the time, and the coroner marked it down as death by natural causes, or the newspaper reported that the shop had never been very profitable and had finally gone out of business...
And also, not entirely unrelated:
Do people really not get why ‘machines smarter than you are’ are not ‘just another technology’?
Assuming the question framing is mostly rhetorical, but if not: No, they really, really don’t. That’s not even really a problem with it being “technology.” Have you ever tried explaining to someone that some human or human organization much smarter than them is using that intelligence to harm them in ways they aren’t smart enough to be able to perceive? It being “technology” just makes it even harder for people to realize.
Whether or not this is true today, it is a statement in which I put near-zero credence.
And also, not entirely unrelated:
Assuming the question framing is mostly rhetorical, but if not: No, they really, really don’t. That’s not even really a problem with it being “technology.” Have you ever tried explaining to someone that some human or human organization much smarter than them is using that intelligence to harm them in ways they aren’t smart enough to be able to perceive? It being “technology” just makes it even harder for people to realize.