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But I'd been conned.
Now look, I *knew* I could be conned. I'd been conned before, 13 years ago, by a Twitter worm that successfully phished out of my password via DM:
https://locusmag.com/2010/05/cory-doctorow-persistence-pays-parasites/
13/
Cory Doctorow /
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2024-02-05 14:08:39
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