{"id":280073,"date":"2023-09-23T14:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280073"},"modified":"2023-09-23T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T12:37:53","slug":"our-moral-guardians-climate-activists-teach-children-to-send-cookie-malware-to-skeptical-grandparents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280073","title":{"rendered":"Our moral guardians: Climate activists teach children to send cookie malware to skeptical grandparents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malware to save the planet eh?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) is asking supporters to send deceptive links out to friends and family that look like a cookie recipe but embed software cookies instead on the victim\u2019s computer. The digital cookie then pushes green climate videos into their feeds, (as if the ABC news wasn\u2019t loaded enough).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look out for any links to oneminutecookie.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AYCC gets about $3m in donations, and even visits schools, teaching children how to cheat and lie to save the planet, or something like that. What are good family relationships built on after all, if not deception? What is science if it is not propaganda?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are all good questions to raise with the children in your life and the schools in your area.  Don\u2019t wait for an email to arrive, thank the AYCC for providing the opportunity to start the conversation now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the believers are so caring, ethical and moral why are they teaching children it\u2019s OK to deceive family members? Is this the kind of \u201cfair and just\u201d world we want to live in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call up schools and the local P&C and ask if they are aware the AYCC \u2014 which runs programs in schools<\/a>  \u2014 teaches children to fool  parents and grandparents and use malware. Are these the kind of family values that belong in our schools? Will the local school guarantee that they will not allow this group to manipulate children?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Australian<\/em> exposed their crooked game this week,<\/a> and traffic to oneminutecookies.com has fallen to zero. So presumably the link trap will change. (The campaign has been put on hold).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporter Joseph Lam spoke to cyber security experts at Check Point Research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company\u2019s tech evangelist Ashwin Ram, one of Australia\u2019s top 100 Innovators, said the technique was not common but was something he imagined cyber criminals would use as part of phishing campaigns.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Ram said cookies were used to \u201cenhance the user experience\u201d, but in the case of AYCC campaign, \u201cit looks like the goal here was to lure sceptics of climate change to oneminutecookie.com\u201d. He adds: \u201cWhile the site looks innocent, a victim\u2019s browser will store cookies that will affect their browsing experience by displaying content to support a particular narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the evidence for climate change is so overwhelming, why don\u2019t they use that to win friends and influence people instead of phishing tricks that criminals might use?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The best lesson children can learn today is that fascists and communists have always taught children to lie. It\u2019s a means to an end.\u00a0\u00a0Read the confessions of a Red Guard \u2014 \u201cI have led a life haunted by guilt\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 Raised fists might\u00a0not be the symbol<\/a>\u00a0that lifts you.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Image by \u2026Rafaelgr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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