How to steal an identity

Sophos wondered whether members of the public would give their name, email address and date of birth to a complete stranger.. Learn more about identity theft at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/10/19/video-stealing-identities-street-...

If members of the public are so prepared to give their personal data to potential identity thieves, how careless do you think they might be with securing confidential information on their business computers?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Sophos
• SophosLabs
• date of birth
• identity theft
• vox pop

[thedr00]

Would be more impressed if they weren't Sophos employees.

[SophosLabs]

None of them were Sophos employees, or related to Sophos employees!

We filmed it in a different city than one where Sophos has an office, by the way. :)

[ComputerGeek396]

When asked "What is identity theft?" they all sounded like kids. lol

[mp3talon]

I like your video editing, Sophos :)

[vyto88]

id be like fuck off i aint givin u that!

[rruckley]

This is why social engineering is often the easiest method of computer fraud.

[ArandurKing909]

How do they make those bird sounds?

[DackIsBack]

Holy crap... Either these people are Idiots or they don't have internet connections.

[applelive4]

Ha ha the birds are a nice way to bleep out something

Same concept applies to Social networking sites

[MrJoeyWheeler]

hahaha...looks like they're actually whistling there...

[TheFauxJournalist]

Nice work