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> If it was a human, it would be much easier to reason with them (normally!) and find a solution that works.

The Internet has shown that if you drive down the cost of interacting with this human gatekeeper to zero (you can be anywhere in the world rather than a specific place and time), social engineering attacks inevitably result. That's how we get hackers getting into your bank accounts just because they are eloquent and they make a great case reasoning with the human gatekeeper.



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