and calling IT help desks.

It always amazes me how much people shit talk social engineering, when it's been a power house for hackers since the beginning.

The human (or I guess AI now) element is always the weakest link

Wait, calling IT Help Desks isn’t social engineering now?

Sounds like the tagline for a really crap movie. How far we've fallen from two people on one keyboard.

Gen Z knows how to use Windows?

Tbf, some of the best hackers were social engineering their way into the backend just by calling up certain support numbers in the 80s

Okay look, I'm old, I'm inadequate, and I'm drunk. But I'm also a millennial, and I was a flight instructor at the age of 23. I pray to whatever god actually exists instead of Jesus for the unceremonious deletion of every soul that doesn't give young folks a chance to learn, grow and actualize themselves. Because I am so inordinately sick of being written off due to the year in which my parents fucked that I've got room on the docket to be pissed off when you do it to cohorts other than mine.

It is our responsibility to teach the kids, to let them learn, to let them fuck up in order to learn some more, so that they can become the actual adults someday. And it hurts my mind, soul and dick that I'm apparently the only human on earth not excessively lead-addled to realize that. And bitch I've washed my hands in 100LL. It's blue and feels cold at any temperature.

If there's one thing I'm going to teach you commie retards before I'm banned outright from this platform, it's that you treat your students with at least the benefit of the doubt if you can't manage genuine respect. Believe it or not, they're real people living real lives that are different than your own. Things that are obvious to you aren't to them because their lives led them to be curious about a different set of things than you did. And if you find yourself in the role of "teacher", almost always your path led you to expertise sooner than your students. Sooner. Not Younger. I can tell you that, having served as a flight instructor at 23 mostly teaching men in their 50's.

You think you're the senior in a field? You think it's your job to reign superior over your juniors? Think again. Because it's your job to sit in the right seat as a kid twice your age sits in the Captain's seat and fails to use the rudder correctly, because falling off a bike is how you learn how to ride. You have to let them slam the plane into the runway, because how the hell else are they going to learn?

Anyone with more experience expressing contempt for those with less experience for having shown up later: FUCK YOUR FUNERAL. Die unmourned.