Sweet surrender

Published: 8:24PM Tuesday August 18, 2009 Source: Close Up

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We all love chocolate, or most of us do. But no matter how much you love the stuff would you give a total stranger your name, contact number and computer password for a chocolate bar? Surely not.

We're constantly lectured about internet security, having to change our password, keep it secure. After all, a password can be the key to our bank accounts, our work, our lives.

So we decided to do a survey, to see just how security conscious we are. In conjunction with Netsafe we hit Auckland's Queen Street offering chocolate bars in return for a few minutes to do a survey.

A survey where the first question was: What is your password? You'll be amazed, perhaps horrified, at the results, and what our cameras were able to pick up.

Robyn Janes reports.

Click here to view the top 50 worst passwords

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