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I think a lot about the inverse Hanlon's razor, which is "if you want to do something malicious, make sure you can get away with attributing it to stupidity".
by visakanv 9y ago
I think a lot about the inverse Hanlon's razor, which is "if you want to do something malicious, make sure you can get away with attributing it to stupidity".
- vikascoder 9y agoOr if your most stupid con act works on a particular set of people, you have struck gold. This is very deliberate on their part. They are not looking for someone possessing any iota of critical thinking skills (the IRS scammers in contrast look for the most easily "scared" demoraphic). They are phishing a different kind of fish.
- eponeponepon 9y agoTo misquote Clarke, "sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity".
- visakanv 9y agoDamn, that's fantastic. I'm using that from now on.
- BerislavLopac 9y agoI wanted to propose the name "Clarke-Hanlon Theorem" for this, but apparently it's already known as Grey's Law: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HanlonsRazor http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HanlonsRazor Edit: Actually it's not, the Grey's Law is the opposite of what eponeponepon wrote...