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ID Theft Made Easy

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the buying-in dept.

chiagoo writes "You may remember that 70% of the time, people will reveal their passwords for chocolate. Well, at this year's Infosecurity Europe, it was revealed that 92% of the 200 attendees surveyed would gladly trade enough information to steal their identities for a chance to win theater tickets. Social engineering at its best. Why spend time writing bots and rootkits when people will give you what you want for a piece of candy or a ticket to see The Pacifier?"

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  1. My Name is CowboyNeal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I love sausages and pie.

    Mmmmm.

    Also, I'm kind of fat.

  2. Re:Moral of the story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    WOW, that's SO fucking INSIGHTFUL you FUCKING moron

  3. Re:Moral of the story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a G5 Dual 2.5Ghz Machine w/ 1 GIG of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even SimpleText is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2.5 Ghz Dual machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  4. Re:This is NOTHING by msaulters · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Texas, it is now a crime to print the full CC number on the slip. Many establishments have not yet complied, but WalMart has NO excuse.

    --
    These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.