From: Valdis Kletnieks <[email protected]> Date sent: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:34:08 -0400
> Each week they increase the payment. Study observed that for payments as low > as > $0.01, 22% of the people who viewed the task ultimately ran the executable. > Once > increased to $1.00, this proportion increased to 43%. As the price increased, > more and more users who understood the risks ultimately ran the code. They > conclude that users are generally unopposed to running programs of unknown > provenance, so long as their incentives exceed their inconvenience." Roughly half the people will run potential malware for a dollar. Roughly half the people you offer a candy bar will give you their password. We are definitely on the wrong side of the business ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] A group of lions is called a pride; a group of crows is called a murder; and a group of buzzwords is called a PowerPoint presentation. - https://twitter.com/MeetingBoy/status/212289330570469376 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
