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ullarah | 6 years ago

The biggest issue among my family and friends are the social engineering questions that strangers ask when on Facebook/Twitter/etc. "Hey what School did you go to as a child?", "What was your first car?". Those kind of innocent like questions that older generations just answer without thinking too much about.

That and explaining two factor authentication and password management, thankfully the latter is not much of an issue these days thanks to browser-integrated password managers like Bitwarden.

As a community trainer, I do a lot of explaining and development. I've found that simple, concise, straight-to-the-point dot points are the key to getting the message across. Perhaps have a short explanation about a topic, and the dot points explaining the fix, or helpful hints.

Definitely keeping an eye on this one and if I can contribute in any way I will.

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brundolf|6 years ago

> The biggest issue among my family and friends are the social engineering questions

That's a really good point, it should probably get its own section.

> Perhaps have a short explanation about a topic, and the dot points explaining the fix, or helpful hints.

Yeah; I tried to avoid long paragraphs but may've still gotten a little too verbose in some spots. The hope was that the table of contents would function as a sort of bullet point-list, where people could skip straight to the things they haven't already heard about.

> Definitely keeping an eye on this one and if I can contribute in any way I will.

Thanks!