[ENTP]

I'd suspected for years about such quizzes. Initially, I assumed the posts to calculate your (porn/movie/etc) name was a low grade phishing exercise as it asked you to mix personal data that are often used in security questions (eg first pet name plus mothers maiden name). This is a whole new level, but entirely unsurprising. Facebook is a data mining platform. Remembering that is nothing but a good thing.

[ChuckMcM]

Especially quizzes like "where was your first job?" or "what's your favorite movie?" all sounded like phishing for security question answers.

[angry-hacker]

It is much harder nowadays, but around 2000 every Hotmail account was protected only by these easy one sentence questions. It was trivial to open accounts if you wanted to. Favorite football club, pets name - - just ask the target. I remember I was young and was wondering why is it so easy to 'hack' Hotmail.

[johansch]

There was also that time when it was trivial to login to every single Hotmail account by only knowing the username.

And it was left like this for at least 12 hours after it was first reported in media...

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotmail.03/

https://slashdot.org/story/99/08/30/1324206/hotmail-cracked-...

[angry-hacker]

Just got an evil idea.. You can target on fb and Google by email lists. You create some stupid web app with questions and promise something in return, a prize, or make it worthwhile to play and target them with all the security questions email accounts or whatever might ask. Could be that this is being done for phising already if the victims are being targeted specifically and don't have 2fa.

[tomascot]

You are late to the party. I remember receiving this kind of questions in 2006 when hotmail and msn messenger were still popular. I think it was part of a game to measure how worldly you were.

[ENTP]

I've been seeing a lot more articles blocked by "surveys" these days. Normally there's a skip option. The mirror group of sites are especially bad for this.

[caseysoftware]

When #first7jobs started trending on Twitter last year, I assumed it was a phishing attack - I've been covering such for years - and it turns out that two major banks were using jobs.. one was first job, the other was second job.

Two for one is a good deal.

[angry-hacker]

I remember in 2000's there was a sex quiz that spread like a worm where you answered personal questions. My friend sent me a link and of course I answered all the details for him to read. Then I sent my link wanting for revenge etc. I can't remember what was my motivation to answer, maybe I was young and just thought it's cool. I do know what was the motivation to spread it further...

[dpweb]

i pride myself on spotting phishing and fake emails but the porn name game omg missed that one!