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Obviously the people hacking accounts are the baddies. But I don't think it's inappropriate to note that, seemingly, someone literally phoned them up, asked for, and received their passwords - and that's not even the main story!



I still can't believe the "humans are generally trusting and helpful to strangers" vulnerability has yet to be patched.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2526


I've been installing cynicism for years. Its a huge patch and the devs seem to have added more bugs than they fixed. It causes some communication issues with those not running the patched version.


It is a wonderfully effective platform for compelling fiction, however! See: O. Henry.




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