Some donation data prompts are nasty

Posted Jul 31, 2024 15:14 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Some donation data prompts are nasty by somlo
Parent article: Lessons from the death and rebirth of Thunderbird

It's also worth being realistic about the outcome of defending against a specific threat; I can promise you now that if a sufficiently capable bad actor has taken me and my family hostage, and is going to kill us all if we don't give the bad actor everything they need to get into my accounts, that they're getting what they ask for, because the consequence of not giving them everything is bad enough that I don't want to risk it.

There is, of course, a relevant XKCD comic about this, with the bad guys not giving up because the computer security is too good, but instead assaulting the computer owner to get access, and we forget that observation at our peril.