A snickers for your password?

• Position: Technology - Brief Article

Would you give out the password you use to log onto the Internet? A man posted outside a London subway earlier this year offered a candy bar to passersby if they would. More than 7 out of 10 took the offer. The survey was staged by organizers of a computer-security conference. It was hardly scientific; only 172 people were polled, and it was not verified that people gave their real passwords. But...