Women love chocolate more than password security

dr strangelove

As stolen from the pages of The Register:

A survey by of 576 office workers in central London found that women are far more likely to give away their computer passwords to total strangers than their male counterparts, with 45 per cent of women versus ten per cent of men prepared to give away their login credentials to strangers masquerading as market researchers.

More here.......

tut, tut, tut, as an IT professional i have to say i'm shocked and appalled.

Seriously.

Who in their right mind would let women operate anything more complicated than an iron, or a rasher sammige making thingy?

AlmightyCushion

These studies are just plain stupid. You don't know if they actually gave the right password to the researcher (unless they break into their workplace and use their computer). If someone offered me chocolate for my password then I'd just give them some random word and take the chocolate.

takola

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

These studies are just plain stupid. You don't know if they actually gave the right password to the researcher (unless they break into their workplace and use their computer). If someone offered me chocolate for my password then I'd just give them some random word and take the chocolate.

Well you're a man aren't you?

dfx-

Usually I'd say that a survey needs at least 1,000 people, but nah, I'm willing to go with this one anyway:)

Don1

Yeah but you know what they say, 95% of statistics are made up on the spot.............

dr strangelove

to paraphrase:

but 60% of the time, they're right all the time!

Don1

hmm, while we're at it, all generalisations are false.

WindSock

heh, funny that. My password is Chocolate.

Ghost Train

Well it would have to be something like chocolate
if you entered "penis" as a password the computer would complain that its not long enough

takola

eolhc wrote: »

Well it would have to be something like chocolate
if you entered "penis" as a password the computer would complain that its not long enough

Gosh. Bad enough hearing that from the wimmin in your life. But to hear it from your computer?

You poor thing!

truecrippler

I've been called 'Chocolate' before.

DJ_Spider

If pen1s isn't long enough why not use todger! But don't use mine, I need it for other RAM uses!

admiralofthefleet

eh.. wheres the tikka masala