FWIW, I thought the ‘Doomsday phishing’ attack was absolutely brilliant. Hey! Sometimes people will deceive you about which things will end the world! May we all stay on our toes.
Do we know who sent the phish, or have corroboration that it actually happened? My favorite scenario (well, not really favorite, as I don’t understand the payoffs for destruction. Most theoretically-interesting, perhaps) is where chris_leong is playing another level game, hoping that benito will believe it’s a misclick, and continue to cooperate (by including them next year) despite knowing that tit-for-tat is a generally good strategy.
I would love to hear from the phisher (using that account if they want it to be anonymous, including if it’s chris_leong themselves) how they think of the exercise and what motivated them to do so. And how they picked their victim(s) - I got a code, but not a phish, and I feel left out!
I’d also be interested to hear from any additional targets how they reacted and whether they detected the phish or just followed their heart to not press the button.
FWIW, I thought the ‘Doomsday phishing’ attack was absolutely brilliant. Hey! Sometimes people will deceive you about which things will end the world! May we all stay on our toes.
Do we know who sent the phish, or have corroboration that it actually happened? My favorite scenario (well, not really favorite, as I don’t understand the payoffs for destruction. Most theoretically-interesting, perhaps) is where chris_leong is playing another level game, hoping that benito will believe it’s a misclick, and continue to cooperate (by including them next year) despite knowing that tit-for-tat is a generally good strategy.
I would love to hear from the phisher (using that account if they want it to be anonymous, including if it’s chris_leong themselves) how they think of the exercise and what motivated them to do so. And how they picked their victim(s) - I got a code, but not a phish, and I feel left out!
I’d also be interested to hear from any additional targets how they reacted and whether they detected the phish or just followed their heart to not press the button.
The guy left two comments on Chris’s post, here and here.
Thanks. Chris is certainly playing a deep game...
( kidding! I have no reason to believe that it isn’t exactly as claimed.)