>>26050268The long answer is that most of people online these days, especially women, adopted computers way after we did and thus never learned things like hardware, opsec, troubleshooting etc because of a combination of iOS and phone devices introducing them to technology as a non-customizable product that doesn't allow maintenance and modification, as well as computer companies actively moving to design hardware and OSes that are hostile to users learning how to properly control and modify them. This is because it's financially beneficial for companies that people A: don't have any control over their computers and B: are trained to buy new machines when the old one breaks.
So you have a generation of computer users, women, old people, casuals etc who were taught to treat their computers like their iPhones in terms of a rigid, unchanging system that is out of their hands. So any time something that could potentially fuck their system up appears, they assume there is no danger because if it runs, it runs, right.
