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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hey.............
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?
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.
1 Posted by valissalynn on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:31PM EDT Report Abuse
If there is no automatic way of verifying the info, heck yeah people are gonna lie for free stuff!