The power of chocolate.

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Forget sophisticated, AV-disabling network worms masquerading as an e-vite party link from a college friend. Next time you want to access someone's computer system without permission, just offer candy.

A recent survey of 172 office workers waiting for commuter trains at a London financial district transit station found a shocking 71% turned over their passwords in exchange for a chocolate Easter egg.

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Now look at all the time and money I have wasted on computers, programs and other miscellaneous devices and all I got to do is play the Easter Bunny....Geeezzz :D


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Cheers:

DjM:

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all I got to do is play the Easter Bunny

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Bet you'll look real cute too..... ;)

To be honest though, I wonder how many people gave fakes just to get the chocolate.....

ha..ha..
Such easy social engineering rather... :D

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To be honest though, I wonder how many people gave fakes just to get the chocolate.....

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Would that be social engineering the social engineer??

I would tell them.................the "general quarters password".............try that and deal with the adrenalin charged young men who arrive in their flak jackets very shortly........OK it gets you IN to the system and OUT in a rubber bag?

Also, take my home........you have one password and twenty machines, and what is it the password to..........BIOS power up?, operating system? file server.................

But chocolate is a wonderful substance...............it aggravates the timid beast?............well one of my brothers in law has a pedigree Charolais...........I guess that he weighs in at around 2500Lbs......and he likes chocolate!.............a bit weird, given their three stomach configuration?.....

The brother in law also has a pair of black faced suffolk and one texel ram..............they also like chocolate...........and me, as a result :D

Just don't give human chocolate to dogs...........it contains substances that are poisonous to them!!!!!

Chocks away?

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Originally posted here by Tiger Shark
Bet you'll look real cute too..... ;)

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Just for you Tiger. :p

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I guess that he weighs in at around 2500Lbs

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Maybe I am reading this wrong. But according to your Lbs note, he apparently likes alot of chocolate. He weighs more than a ton? ROTFLMAO



Wonder what these folks would give me for a a pound hershey's kiss? Perhaps the whole PC?

Looks like im going to have to dig out my bunny suit too lol.

PeacE
-BoB

DjM: Hmmm.... You look a bit like an ex-wife of mine.... ;)

Dopey: A Charolais is a bull!!!!! They are big.... That's why they are so friggin' scarey......

...social confectioneering?

Why don't we make our own survey and call up people and see how many give up their passwords for chocolate :p

Pieces of candy? Gezz...

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Susan was a textbook example of a maladjusted girl. She'd been mistreated as a kid, but was of the survivor kind. She became a prostitute as early as her teens, and earned her living working LA brothels. On her time off, she was a groupie, fraternizing with various rock bands. She discovered how easy it was to get backstage passes for concerts just by calling up the right people and pretending to be, for example, a secretary at a record company. She became an active phreaker at the very end of the 70's, and was naturally an expert at social engineering.

Soon, she hooked up with a couple of guys named Ron and Kevin Mitnick, both notorious hackers, later to be arrested for breaking into the computers of various large corporations. Susan's specialty was attacking military computer systems, which gave her a sense of power. To reach her objectives, she could employ methods that would be unthinkable for male hackers: she sought out various military personnel and went to bed with them. Later, while they were sleeping, she could go through their clothes for usernames and passwords. (Many people kept these written down on pieces of paper in order to remember them). Susan therefore hacked so that she could feel a sense of power or influence in this world, despite her hopeless social predicament. For her, hacking was a way to increase her self-esteem.

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http://bash.org/?281238

This is quite funny yet sad at the same time. For those purists who frown on social engineering, you better think it over...

http://internetweek.com/security02/s...cleID=18902094

Merged TheHorse13's post in with this one. :D