Survey, Any help appreciated Options

[MarkDorley]

Hi

I was hoping you could fill out this myspace type survey... it's research for a university assignment. If you'd prefer not to then thats good to


1. What is your favorite thing to wear?
2. Last thing you ate?
3. One place you will NEVER eat at?
4. Would you date anyone you met online?
5. The last place you went out to dinner to?
6. Who/What made you angry today?
7. What are your pets called?
8. Do you feel safe online?
9. Ever gone skinny dipping?
10. Favorite type of Food?
11. Favorite holiday:
12. Do you download music:
13. Opinion of Chinese symbol tattoos?
14. Have you ever bungee jumped?
15. Have you ever Sky-dived?
16. Have you ever gone white-water rafting?
17. Has anyone ten years older than you ever hit on you?
18. How many pets do you have?
19. What are you listening to right now?
20. What is your current favorite song?
21. What was the last movie you watched?
22. Do you wear contacts?
23. Where was the last place you went besides your house?
24. What are you afraid of?
25. How many piercings have you had?
26. Do you have any tatoos
27. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
28. Have you ever fired a gun:
29. Are you missing someone?
30. Favorite TV show?
31. Ever done an IQ test, if so what score?
32. Favorite movie of all time?
33. Have you ever been caught doing something you weren't suppose to?
34. Favorite smell?
35. Butter, plain, or salted popcorn?
36. Do you consider yourself bad/average/good with computers?
37. Do you like Michael Jackson?
38. What's the longest time you've gone without sleep?
39. Where is the weirdest place you have slept?
40 Who was your last phone call?

thank you.

[MonkeyFiend]

1. What is your favorite thing to wear?
Not being a great follower of fashion, Jeans I guess
2. Last thing you ate?
Apple
3. One place you will NEVER eat at?
McDonalds
4. Would you date anyone you met online?
spose
5. The last place you went out to dinner to?
'Upstairs at the grill'
6. Who/What made you angry today?
An old version of Linux and some BMC software not working
7. What are your pets called?
*
8. Do you feel safe online?
* yes
9. Ever gone skinny dipping?
Don't think so actually
10. Favorite type of Food?
*Chilli!
11. Favorite holiday:
Snowboarding or possibly diving in Thailand
12. Do you download music:
Indeedily
13. Opinion of Chinese symbol tattoos?
don't like some, can be bit tacky
14. Have you ever bungee jumped?
yes
15. Have you ever Sky-dived?
yes
16. Have you ever gone white-water rafting?
yes
17. Has anyone ten years older than you ever hit on you?
unfortunately
18. How many pets do you have?
none at the moment
19. What are you listening to right now?
Prodigy new album
20. What is your current favorite song?
* I quite like the BPA toejam
21. What was the last movie you watched?
Far cry 2... my brain feels squishy now
22. Do you wear contacts?
Sometimes
23. Where was the last place you went besides your house?
Work as usual
24. What are you afraid of?
Not a great fan of dentists, no general fears though.
25. How many piercings have you had?
about 4
26. Do you have any tatoos
nope
27. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
macchiato or latte
28. Have you ever fired a gun:
Yes, including a sniper rifle and an ak47
29. Are you missing someone?
perhaps
30. Favorite TV show?
* Family guy i guess
31. Ever done an IQ test, if so what score?
yes, 142 /boast
32. Favorite movie of all time?
*maybe fight club or lord of the rings
33. Have you ever been caught doing something you weren't suppose to?
fraid so
34. Favorite smell?
fresh coffee
35. Butter, plain, or salted popcorn?
depends on my mood
36. Do you consider yourself bad/average/good with computers?
*good, hehe
37. Do you like Michael Jackson?
well, he's hot.. oh right...if you mean musically then yeah
38. What's the longest time you've gone without sleep?
about 40 hours, I was hallucinating by the end of that one
39. Where is the weirdest place you have slept?
In a train station, in a farmers field, on some stairs
40. Who was your last phone call?
insurance company spam

thank you.
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* ok Mark, at first I thought this was spam but on investigation it turn out to be legitimate college (not university ) work. Basically a college level psychology-esque piece of work realting to social engineering.

What we have here is several usual myspaz type survey questions with a couple of custom ones rolled in, the purpose of which is to guage whether people reveal details about themselves that could be used against them e.g. gaining passswords, if the password was a pets name etc., and a general questions asking computer based expertise to correlate this against how people perceive their IT knowledge and whether they inadvertantly give out potentially revealing information.

Obviously after this explanation this renders the survey results from this site invalid, however it is more important for me to ensure security of user accounts here. Sorry.

Your details led me to a website you've made penetration testing (a pet subject of mine ), While no doubt social engineering does work, I believe a lot more security breaches are weak password related, combined with brute forcing.

It takes very little time to brute force a 5 character dictionary word + 3 number type password. I would suggest you change your website password and mark me down as the first successful security breach

Anyway, good luck with the school project and if you get a copy of Left 4 Dead you should drop by for a game

MonkeyFiend

P.S. A good one for social engineering is to ask people what their pornstar name is (explaining that you make their pornstar name using their street name and their mothers maiden name) - quite a subtle way of getting 2 bits of personal info