Just Observing

Just Observing

Hell...don't even need hackers to get that personal info! J, one of the writers, emailed this to me yesterday:

"'Twas trapped in the carwith radio yesterday and came across Kevin Mitnik
(yep, ye olde reformed hacker), talking about hacking into cell phones.

He gave a great example of people's stupidity, relating it to big business
and 'these are the people--the mentality--working for you...'

Seems there was a big trade show in London and some cellular provider did an
experiment with giveaways. They gave away a box of pens to anyone who would
tell them their (the individual's) voice mail password. Nine out of ten
people gave it up for a box of pens.

The company found it fascinating. So the trade show, they experimented
again. This time the prize was a chocolate easter egg. Seven out of ten
took the egg and revealed their password.

Any wonder why there's so much hacking going on? And according to Mitnik:
the provider easiest to hack and most often hacked: T Mobile.

'Twas a painless drive. Wish I'd heard the whole show...
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And then, today, J adds:

"The thrust of what he (Mitnik) was talking about (and what his new book is about) is
how important it is for companies to stress to their employees the necessity
for keeping private information private and for company employees to
understand how vulnerable they make the company when they shoot their mouth
off at the wrong time/wrong place.

The interview aired on KFI-AM Radio in Los Angeles on Sat. 3/12 on The Tech
Guy's show."
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Tell you what...people who'd swap that info for those items...What the hell were they thinking? Guess they weren't. Hoo-boy!
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