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[dragonlady7]

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it is absolutely real lol. the evidence is that people get hacked all the time! hacking is tedious, as a profession and a hobby, all serious computer touchers are doing tedious jobs. this is why adhd/autistic people end up computer touching for a living quite a lot of the time, because we can get into flow states where we can dig through social media posts for 10 hours without getting bored or distracted.

there are many ways to get hacked. the most common way is using the same passwords on one site as you do on another site that gets their data stolen or leaked. thats easy mode. but if you piss someone off, advertise yourself as a target (like a lot of the influencers who have gotten robbed recently after showing off their stupid rolexes and shit on IG), or just get plain unlucky, you can end up on the receiving end of a computer toucher who will start with your tumblr bio and go something like this:

hm, Jessica is 25 years old and lives in Philadelphia and mentioned in a comment that she went to Smith Elementary school which is the aswer to one of the security questions at her bank, and i know what ban k she uses because she posted a complaint about that bank on her blog. i know her age which means that she graduated HS in 20XX and she says shes a libra so shes born in this month, seawrching for the word “birthday” on her tumblr didnt give me anything but searching the same on the twitter account she linked in her sidebar DID give me a post on her actual birthday so now i know when it is, oh she accidentally included part of a mailing address label in the backround of a pic of her nails so now i know her last name, searching FB with this last name in philadelphia i see she has a private profile but i now have every single one of her family members who AREN’T PRIVATE, including her mom who has her maiden name listed publicly (another bank account security question) and i can look up jessica and everyone she knows on voterrecords.com and whitepages.com and mylife.com and find all their mugshots and arrest records and addresses and maybe even pay a few bucks to get complete public records with even more information, it really ddepends on how much of a freak i am, and the internet has bottomless creeps with free refills.

everything i just typed out takes about 45 minutes to do and costs $0 except the advanced records search which is real cheap. i have done this to creeps and stalkers many times in order to get the information i needed to shut them down or threaten them. someone who actually is after your money or accounts can do a lot more and is motivated to do so because most of them are working out of places where a Steam account (for example) is worth the trouble. check blackhatworld.com and read what the instagram scammers are doing in the broad daylight, thats not even a private forum. to those guys, someone’s organic and real instagram account is worth a couple bucks and they are definitely out there harvesting them to resell. another reason hackers take accounts is to hit up your friends and family for donations. sometimes they just use it to dump spam and you get banned for it.

edit: a BIG reason random women get hacked? creeps looking through your DMs for nudes, which they then sell or just swap for fun because theyre awful. people dont really need good reasons to do this terrible shit. a ton of women who ended up on isanyoneup.com had absolutely no idea how their pics got on there, and some of the content was stuff they had never even sent to anyone. every time one of my computers or phones shits itself and i have to take it into a repair place ( i try to avoid doing this but sometimes stuff is above even my pay grade as a computer-toucher myself) i am EXTREMELY AWARE that anyone at the repair place can and probably will dump every single photo from my machine onto a thumb drive and take it home. just because they can.

its not super likely that someone is going to walk in your front door and rob or kill you if you dont lock it every single night but like. you should still lock your front door. if you leave food lying around youre going to get raccoons. (Your picture was not posted)