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Damn, that's an impressively well-done attack. Curious, do you use a password manager? If so, did it not autofilling feel like a red flag to you?

I've always wondered if I ever get phished if I'll notice bc of that or if I'll just go "ugh 1password isn't working, guess i'll paste my password in manually" and end up pwned



I was on mobile, didn't use the autofiller. Also previous experience with the web extensions showed me that they were flakey at best anyway.

The `.help` should have been the biggest red flag, followed by the 48-hours request timeline. I wasn't thinking about things like I normally would this morning and just wanted to get things done today. Been a particularly stressful week, not that it's any excuse.


I'm thinking on what all the anti-passkey folks have to say right now. Or the "password managers aren't necessary" crowd.




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