From Kimlet, this is Refly Off.

I'm The Abendant.

So for the last couple of weeks, I've been wondering nonstop about the same question.

The question is about this kind of hack, fishing.

I've always had the impression that fishing is something I shouldn't worry about because

nobody really falls for it.

And even here at work, in March, we were trying to figure out how Alex Bloomberg's Uber

account got hacked.

And when Alex Goldman even suggested the possibility that he might have gotten fished,

Bloomberg got genuinely annoyed.

Do you know what fishing is?

Yes.

Did that happen?

No.

You see, I can't imagine giving my password to somebody who wrote to me over email.

Bloomberg felt about it the way I did.

Fishing is for dummies.

But then a month later, news came out that the president of France, his campaign got

fished, like some of his staffers ended up handing over their personal passwords.

And actually, I started to notice that a lot of the hacks that I'm reading about recently,

they start with fishing.

John Podesta, that was fishing, the Sony hack by North Korea, that was fishing.

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