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I started getting some of these recently. They try to be threatening about porn watching and stuff like that. I just "Report Phishing" and move on. The threat itself is not that great: they'll send videos of your self-love to everyone. That's not outrageously threatening, if I'm being honest.

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Not only that—anyone who's ever tried to have FaceTime sex knows that the only video they would capture is of your face watching porn... it's not like they can see your body unless you're specifically placing your phone in order to show it to someone else (which is actually kind of challenging and definitely nothing like how you'd use your phone to watch porn). They're basically threatening to send pictures of your "O face" which really wouldn't be that embarrassing at all to me, at least.

I think of it like a lot of the security discussion where nerds like us like to talk about all of these cool, complicated attacks because they are technically challenging but when you look at how normal people are suffering it’s mostly boring stuff like password reuse for anyone who hasn’t pissed off the Mossad.

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