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41% of Facebook Users Willing To Divulge Personal Info

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-you-need-my-social-security-number? dept.

plastick writes "In an experiment, 41% of Facebook users were willing to divulge highly personal information to a complete stranger. This according to IT security firm Sophos, which invited 200 randomly selected Facebookers to befriend a bogus Facebook user named 'Freddi Staur' (an anagram of 'ID Fraudster'). Of those queried, 87 responded to the invitation, among them 82 people whose profiles included personal information such as their email address, date of birth, address or phone number."

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  1. An experiment... by tuxrocks1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    How many slashdotters will click this link

  2. Re:Was it real by Zemran · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always use 1-1-1980, the date that BIOS used to reset to when the battery went flat on a motherboard.

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