, The Register 2004-04-20
The British are blasé about keeping sensitive personal data confidential. More than 60 per cent of 100 people approached in the street by researchers were happy to give clues about the type of password they used (such as date of birth or family names) on online banking or ecommerce sites. Combine this with other information, obtained through various social engineering tricks, and it is fairly easy to piece together a potential victim's online identity.
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Surveyors would't have the possibility to check the accuracy of the information given to them, so it must have been pretty easy to just give out a password for the chocolate. The study has no ...
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