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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 :::

My password is Pokemon!

Were they polling 10-year olds? I think it's funny that they used a bar of chocolate as bait.

From Wired:
Protecting one's computer password may not be as big a deal as the security paranoids would have you believe. An informal poll of commuters in a London tube station revealed that 70 percent of them were willing to share their computer password for a bar of chocolate.


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I would give my password to anything for a bar of chocolate.
And no.
I'm not ten.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:33 AM  




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