Shit... you caught me off guard. Wasn't expecting such a lovely message :D

I highly appreciate what you said and it's good to have a viewpoint of someone who actually knows a lot about the subject. I only dabble in the whole thing and my knowledge tends to stay as knowledge and not actual skill here. I think people don't like seeing and hearing about victims. Since they think they wouldn't fall for something, they expect them to not fall for it either. Yet at the same time, the narrative tends to be very elitist. Saying that they indeed are better and so on, which goes against the whole idea. I think it does just come from either hubris or as some sort of a way to silence the "victimhood". Mind you, if they fall for something like that, they'll be the first ones to publicly say what happened to them, how they should get sympathy and so on.

I don't know if they're contrarians, elitists, edgelords or a mix of everything. Maybe they're none. But the fact is that it just doesn't help anyone and will essentially force people to stay quiet. Which in itself keeps the issue in the shadows and lower everyone else's guard, causing more people to get hacked.

The whitelisting means a lot. Of course, your comment means way more, but a whitelist (to me at least) shows that people like you enough to include you in whatever they do. Maybe it's unhealthy, looking for validation and so on, but I can't deny that I feel honoured to be included.

Again, thanks for the message. You didn't have to go out of your way to give good wishes, but you did and it shows a lot about a person :)