Women break down, reveal password for chocolate?

Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:22PM EDT

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Europe's Security Awareness Week takes place next week, and Infosecurity Europe set out to find just how well people guard their personal information. Unfortunately, something as small as a chocolate bar got people to divulge their password to total strangers posing as market researchers on the street.

Of the 576 office workers surveyed, 46 percent of women and 10 percent of men listed their password on the survey form in exchange for a chocolate bar. A chocolate bar!

On the upside, Infosecurity says the number of people giving up their password for chocolate actually dropped this year to 21 percent, compared to the 64 percent of folks who couldn't resist the temptation of milky chocolate bars last year.

And while a piece of chocolate didn't fool the men the first time, a trip to Paris surely did. Apparently, 60 percent of men, and 62 percent of women revealed their contact information. such as name and telephone number, when they entered a drawing in hopes of winning a free trip.

Obviously, there's no way of knowing if the passwords revealed were legitimate or not, but you just never know these days. So remember kids, never accept candy from strangers, and never, ever, ever give out your password for a KitKat.  

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  • 1 Posted by valissalynn on Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:36AM EDT Report Abuse

    If there is no automatic way of verifying the info, heck yeah people are gonna lie for free stuff!

  • 3 Posted by matt_archbold2002 on Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:03AM EDT Report Abuse

    Yeah, this survey is crap when they dont verify if the password was a real password. Also, what was it a password to? Was it an old email account that hasnt been used in 10 years, or was it a password to something like a current bank account?

  • 4 Posted by dariabkwrm on Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:03PM EDT Report Abuse

    I love chocolate and all, but I am very frightened to think that people would give their real info out for a bit of the tasty stuff. Hopefully they did give out fake info.

  • 5 Posted by perugirl527 on Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:48PM EDT Report Abuse

    lame. Thats like filling out a credit card app on a college campus for a free tshirt. Just give them a fake SSN and you get the shirt.

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