Chocolate bar for your password?

[BishopMVP]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/we...ew/25rivi.html

COMPUTER security experts tend not to be easily shocked by people's foolhardy, frequently cavalier attitudes toward online security. But even within this generally hardened breed, some expressed surprise over the results of a recent survey in Britain that underscored the profound vulnerability of the world's computer networks.
A man posted outside a London subway station at rush hour offered a chocolate bar to random passers-by if they would reveal the password they used to log on to the Internet. Amazingly, more than 7 out of 10 took the offer.

[SackAttack]

Well, sure. It's one thing to give someone your password, as long as they have no idea who you are and what your username/ISP might be. From that perspective, hey, free candy.

I'd be more interested if they had done a study that had the interviewers asking for the people's ISP, username, AND password.

And even then, what's stopping them from making something up just to get the free chocolate?

I get the sense that this is just a slanted article, without pointing out that, y'know, there's other factors in play here.

[Suicane75]

Ive done worse things for candy.

[BishopMVP]

It's an exaggeration to show a point, but I'm guessing they asked for the user name too. The rest of the article is just about how cavalier, or stupid, some people are with their passwords.

[LionsFan10]

That seems odd, I wonder how many people gave their *REAL* password, why not just give the guy some bullshit mix of letters and numbers? Shit, anything COULD be a password.

[Poli]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

Ive done worse things for candy.

Haven't we all?

I thought someone finally figured out my password to everything was "chocolate bar".

[korme]

yeah, my password is lickmytesticlesbecauseyourstupidenoughtobelievemewhenitellyouwhenallireallyamdoingisgivingyouafaketoscamyouforthatdeliciouscandybarofyours