Workers are prepared to give away their passwords for a cheap pen, according to a somewhat unscientific – but still illuminating – survey published today. The second annual survey into office scruples, conducted by the people organising this month’s InfoSecurity Europe 2003 conference, found that office workers have learnt very little about IT security in the past year. If anything, people are even more lax about security than they were a year ago, the survey found. Nine in ten (90 per cent) of office workers at London’s Waterloo Station gave away their computer password for a cheap pen, compared with 65 per cent last year. Men were slightly more likely to reveal their password with 95 per cent of blokes, compared to 85 per cent of women quizzed, prepared to hand over their password on request. Full Story
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