That is literally the very first words in my Twitter thread about this entire subject.

That is true. But remember, the average slashdot reader is way more techincal and way more savvy than probably 99% of the general computer using population. These scammers are not targeting your typical slashdot user. They are targeting our parents, our friends, and our cousins. Ray (author of the original Tweet thread)

It's actually much older than that. I remember when even 5.25" floppies were sometimes marked as double sided double density when they were actually certified for neither. But thank you for reading the Twitter thread!!! It was meant to be a fun and lighthearted thread.

If you are curious about why the TrustedID site returns false answers when you input bogus info, here is a pretty good hint. https://twitter.com/rayjwatson...

Dear AlexKing, Instead of accusing RIM of disabling your "bountied" software, why don't you open source it so that we can all look for bugs in the implementation? After all, when the bounty was offered no one told any of the contributors that this would be for a commercial, closed source product, and many of us who contributed to the project are angry and disappointed that it was hijacked for a proprietary, closed project. Open it up!!!