How to crack someone’s computer password

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How to crack someone’s computer password

By Mark Pack | Wed 16th April 2008 - 5:26 pm

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A new survey claims:

Women are far more likely to give away their passwords to total strangers than their male counterparts, with 45% of women versus 10% of men prepared to give away their password,to strangers masquerading as market researchers with the lure of a chocolate bar as an incentive for filling in the survey.

Hat-tip: Guido Fawkes

PS I wonder if Grant Shapps has a sweet tooth?

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10 Comments

Julian H 16th Apr '08 - 6:01pm

I should to lie to women more.
James Graham 16th Apr '08 - 6:27pm

Grant Shapps is an 80s kid so I’m sure he remembers those 54321 bars.
James Graham 16th Apr '08 - 6:30pm

Just in case da yoot think I made the chocolate bar in my last comment up: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lR5iuY5RZ1w
Grant Shapps 16th Apr '08 - 6:46pm

We LibDems are doomed. We, as genuine Liberal Democrats, must accept this and support the Tories instead.
Alix 16th Apr '08 - 7:39pm

As I recall, the tagline was “Five treats in one bar”, based purely on the fact that the bar was composed of five squares of matter (I’m not sure what it was, but it had certainly never heard of a cocoa bean). We were easily pleased in the eighties weren’t we. Everyone now talks about it as the great age of wealth expansion but for most people it was just the seventies reworked in fuzzy felts, really.
Eastender 16th Apr '08 - 11:31pm

Was I the only one whose mother bought the fake Gateway ones called 5ive bars?
sanbikinoraion 17th Apr '08 - 9:58am

Surely this only shows that women like chocolate more than men do – hardly a novel conclusion…
Chris Keating 17th Apr '08 - 11:19am

There is a fair bit of psychological research which shows women are more ‘agreeable’ than men. Less suspicious, more optimistic, more trusting.

So this isn’t really a surprise.
Jennie 17th Apr '08 - 11:32am

Chris, unless and until they have been in an abusive relationship, and then they swing AAAALLLLL the way to the other side of the spectrum.

Ah, gross generalisation, how I do love thee.

Still, it seems that being allergic to chocolate does have SOME benefits.
Richard Gadsden 19th Apr '08 - 8:17pm

All this proves is that women are more prepared to lie for chocolate than men