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Women 4 times more likely than men to cough up personal info

networkworld.com — That's according to a survey conducted outside a London subway stop by Infosecurity Europe. And what were the fake researchers offering as an incentive to spill that personally identifiable information? A candy bar.

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 17, 2008

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  • diggymow, on 04/17/2008, -1/+39They didn't have any way to know if the information was true. I'm going with Women 4 times more likely to lie about personal information to get candy.
  • whoreable, on 04/17/2008, -1/+33So when I ask for their phone number, I should give them chocolate first?
  • DeskFlyer, on 04/17/2008, -1/+31Chocolate. Is there anything it can't do?
  • racco, on 04/17/2008, -7/+33NEWS FLASH!!!!!

    woman like to talk, and they also like chocolate.

    ......... now sport
  • insomniac8400, on 04/17/2008, -2/+24I bet you could triple the number if you handed them a credit card application instead of candy.
  • ubernoggin, on 04/17/2008, -2/+24Yes, but what KIND of candy bar? Almond Joy? Mr. Goodbar? Inquiring minds want to know.
  • inactive, on 04/17/2008, -2/+18They're also 4 times more likely not to be on digg.com to comment on this story.
  • CobaltBlue, on 04/17/2008, -1/+11I'll gladly give out my fake birthdate for a free candy bar. I'll even give it out on Digg. 4/1/1980. Easy to remember, not as fake looking as 1/1/1980 and totally false.
  • meatmcguffin, on 04/17/2008, -1/+9Why would it be any of those when the survey was in London?

    If it was a Double Decker then I really can't blame these people.
  • bat-21, on 04/17/2008, -1/+9I'm not surprised. I give out fake personal for free ***** all the time.
  • passedoutghost, on 04/17/2008, -1/+8"I constantly find myself wanting to become popular and acquainted with people online. What better way to do this than with a tag that attaches both my e-mail, facebook, IM, and phone number to the internet with every comment that I post?"

    YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
  • inactive, on 04/17/2008, -1/+8worst pedobear ever
  • nahsrocketeer75, on 04/17/2008, -1/+8There are about a thousand good wisecracks that could be useful here if not for the fact that my wife reads Digg.
  • Lixie, on 04/17/2008, -1/+6Yes, I'm calling about the soap I ordered....
  • DeskFlyer, on 04/17/2008, -2/+7100 Grand.
  • Jenadae, on 04/17/2008, -1/+6WoW... that failed... damn
  • OwdenBowden, on 04/17/2008, -0/+5Better yet what time of the month was it?
  • sexybobo, on 04/17/2008, -2/+7The real news here is that some men let their women out of the kitchen
  • blanktarget, on 04/17/2008, -1/+5Did they take into consideration that they could be giving away a fake password? I'd make one up on the spot for free candy!
  • lovecss, on 04/17/2008, -1/+5I don't get it. Why do you post all that information after each comment you make? Am I missing something here?
  • BTime, on 04/17/2008, -0/+4Unfortunately, the phone number they handed you on that napkin is no longer in service =P
  • liuite, on 04/17/2008, -1/+5men are from mars and women from venus, so chocolate doesn't work on men. offer men sex and they will spill their beans.
  • robthom, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3^^ thats funny you mention that, women remind me of drunks when it comes to running their mouths sometimes.
    Also my tinfoil hat tells me that there is a systematic encouragement by the goverment unrelated to the hippies parallel effort to put women in more positions of power and take power away from working men because women are easier to coerce and manipulate with hollow words and shallow toys.
  • asteroid, on 04/17/2008, -0/+3Men could be manipulated just as easily. Just not with chocolate.
  • louiebaur, on 04/17/2008, -4/+7Wow that is crazy chocolate for personal information what idiots
  • passedoutghost, on 04/17/2008, -1/+4I never give out personal information when asked on the street. I remember last time me and my friend took a survey on the street, he gave an Asian sounding name (he's Middle Eastern) and I gave an Arab sounding name (I'm Asian). I think we succeeded in pissing the guy off.

    So what's to say that some of the people didn't lie?
  • Lixie, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3So pretty much "anything"....
  • WikiEasy, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3a/s/l
  • norcalscan, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2I hate the smart programmers who properly put in the leap years in web forms. 2/29/69 FAIL
  • paintpro, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2Only after you tard. There is no incentive to give out the number once they have the chocolate.
  • inactive, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3I imagine every bury as one person facepalming and for some reason I lol
  • Jenadae, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3that it was...
  • antdude, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2Hmm, so we can use chocolate to control women? HMM! Could be useful to us.
  • iterrell, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3Headline would read "Men 4 times more likely" if they'd offered beer.
  • binaryloop, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2Bitches don't know about my free chocolate
  • LuckyN, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1the results of this survey were published like 5 months ago! why digg old news?
  • inactive, on 04/21/2008, -0/+127/m/Austin ;-)
  • dsmx, on 04/17/2008, -1/+2Stop a Monorail.
  • passedoutghost, on 04/17/2008, -1/+2Pedobear's in disguise!
  • inactive, on 04/17/2008, -2/+3Offer free porn instead and I'll bet the results will be skewed the other way.
  • lemonpies, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1hand over the choccy bars first or it's no deal! :P
  • meatmcguffin, on 04/17/2008, -2/+3Was it meant to be everyone's favourite bear?
  • whoreable, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1lol april fools day ... good one.
  • norcalscan, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Not true - wives don't read digg on their own. Husbands must drag them to the computer exclaiming, "here, check this story out, (with subsequent rick roll)" all the while she is thinking, "this ***** is what keeps my husband from spending more time with me?!"
  • residentskitz, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1whats that sound?
  • LuckyN, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1good point
  • psykiv, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1I usually give the same fake name. The most information I'll give some random person is my first name.
  • insomniac8400, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1That's about right. Margin of error +-2%.
  • lemonpies, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1why not, chocolate is involved.
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