Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security

binaryDigit writes "The Register has an amusing article about a study done in the UK where office workers were asked tricky questions like 'What is your password', and 75% of the respondents answered... They were also asked ethical questions, 'If you found a file with your coworkers salaries, would you look', 75% would, and 38% would pass the information around! Read on to be both amused (esp. the CEO) and scared."

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Re:Social Engineering is all but unstoppable

[Santos L. Halper]

When I do on-site work, I often have to ask people their passwords. I can't think of one time when anybody refused to tell me. In fact, many make it a point to tell me that they use that password for everything. I still remember most of the passwords, too.