What's Your Password?

from the it's-that-simple dept

Apparently a somewhat unscientific "man on the street" survey done in the UK shows that most people have no problem giving their passwords away to random strangers. Nearly 2/3 of people asked admitted what their passwords were. They also found out that most of those same people had no problem taking confidential information with them after they left a company, or with sharing secret information with friends. Just a reminder that the weakest security link is your employees who just don't care.

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    dan, Apr 12th, 2002 @ 9:59pm

    I love this "scientific" studies...

    I asked people and they said this story is fake, therefore it must be a fake.

    What happened to citing sources? I mean they didn't quote the person who did the study?

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