Phishing for Credit

An anonymous reader writes "Two graduate students at Indiana University conducted a phishing study to determine how readily students will give up personal information if the phishing emails appear to come from close friends. Using only publicly available information, they sent out emails to students asking them to click a link that required username/password information. Needless to say, the study has generated lots of attention on campus. The student newspaper has the story and the researchers have created a blog where the participants can vent."

Comments

Re:Just watch

[T-Ranger]

pressed with charges
Man, you speek the english good.

Re:I see their point, but...

[OverlordQ]

If the university's IT organization proper is doing it, that's one thing, and I could see people being uncomfortable with the motivations. But grad students? I don't see any problem with that at all.

Say what!?

I'd rather have the 'Official' Representatives of the service performing the study not some J Random User, since you know there has to be some oversight if the School Officals are doing it.