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Re: Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate


From: Eric Van Wiltenburg <vanwilt () UVIC CA>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:14:32 -0700

That was my immediate thought too... just give them a ficticious
password.  Nonetheless, I'll bet that many gave out a genuine password.
I think I'm going to walk around campus and try this out for myself! 

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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate

I would have been happy to make up a fictitious password in response
to the survey so as to scam some chocolate.   How could the
survey-takers found me out?  :-)

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