[Cryptography] Facebook on the state of STARTTLS

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed May 21 20:08:06 EDT 2014


On Wed, 21 May 2014, Lodewijk andr? de la porte wrote:

> Companies on Facebook are working hard to find out how much people are
> willing to trade "not being spammed" for "maybe winning something".

People were being offered a bar of chocolate if they would disclose
personal information, and they did.  In another experiment, someone
sprinkled USB sticks in public car-parks, set to phone home with
auto-run, and they did.

Will the sheep ever learn?

-- Dave


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