Re: phishing irony

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:55:25 CST, "HALL, NATHANIEL D." said:
> Why stop sending examples?  To me it seems like a perfect opportunity to
> educate those users who responded.

What little gain you get in education is *vastly* outweighed by the fact that
you can no longer say "WE NEVER ASK FOR PASSWORDS IN EMAIL". You might be able
to get that 7-word version to stick in the average user's brain.

You start trolling your users like this, and what they'll *remember* is:

"IT doesn't ask for our passwords in e-mail, except if it's a training event,
oh and didn't I hear from somebody down the hall they'd do it if they lost the
password database and had to rebuild it, just like this e-mail says they're
doing, and 2 or 3 other cases they'd do it even though they usually don't..."

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