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TravelTechGuy on Oct 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

All was funny until I reached this paragraph: "These enemies have almost unlimited resources. They always listen in to telephone conversations between Alice and Bob. And these enemies are very sneaky. One of their favorite tricks is to telephone Alice and pretend to be Bob."

Talk about ahead of its time...

TrainedMonkey on Oct 14, 2014 [–]

This is a very old concept, what changed is mostly scale.

josu on Oct 15, 2014 | [–]

And the execution. It's much easier to impersonate somebody through a text message or an email than a voice call.

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