Gimme your candy bar, and I'll give my password away
[via Simon Willison]
An article on Security Pipeline proved that 71% (yes : seventy-one per cent!) of office workers surveyed at Liverpool Street Station accepted to trade their password for a chocolate bar.
Well... what about a beer, then? I would have understand... But a chocolate bar, geez... This really show us how far people are concerned about security. What's the point in making extremely secure systems, 128 bits keys, firewalls, etc.
Worse of it... It disappoints me, but I'm not surprised.
And, as you guess, the most used passwords are names of SO, children, football team and house pet.
We have the IT world we deserved. GNU/Linuxers can yell against massive security holes in Windows, the worse ennemy in computing is not Bill Gates: it's user. PEBKAC.