Loading ...Giving Up Passwords for Chocolates Offered By Good Looking Women
Unbelievable!
People are too trusting, especially when there's chocolate on the line. A survey out today by the organizers of the tech-security conference Infosecurity Europe found that 21% of 576 London office workers stopped on the street were willing to share their computer passwords with a good looking woman holding a clipboard. People were offered a chocolate bar in exchange for the information. More than half of the people surveyed said they used the same password for everything.
Women far more likely to give away their passwords to total strangers than their male counterparts, with 45% of women versus 10% of men prepared to give away their password, to strangers masquerading as market researches with the lure of a chocolate bar as an incentive for filling in the survey. The survey was actually part of a social engineering exercise to raise awareness about information security. The survey was conducted outside Liverpool Street Station in the City of London.
Sure, I will give up a fake password for a chocolate 
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Tags: chocolate bar, chocolates, computer passwords, fake password, good looking woman, good looking women, infosecurity europe, office workers, security conference ~ Last updated on: April 25, 2008
This is sick
Wow, that’s very surprising. Luckily I couldn’t remember any of our server passwords if I wanted to - They’re all very long hashes.
its funny:)
Apparently, 90% of the men surveyed where too dumb to think of a fake password for chocolate while the woman where only at 55%. I think this survey shows that woman are more willing to lie for chocolate than men. Very interesting.