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“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons” (crabby.fyi)

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Regardless of flipping the dynamic, that's a good way to avoid scammers. It's easy to spoof an incoming number, but near impossible to intercept an outgoing call. If your "bank" calls and starts asking funny questions, just hang up and call the real bank to check.