| Title | It's Easy to Infect People With Malware If You Pay Them a Few Cents | |
| Date | Monday June 16 2014, @10:55PM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the will-do-anything-for-cash dept. | ||
Gizmodo reports:
A team of four researchers found [PDF] that 22 to 43 percent of their test subjects would download and run an unknown executable file for payments ranging from as low as $0.01 to $1.
The researchers used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to conduct the experiment. Participants were asked to download a program onto their systems and run it for an hour. They did not know what the program actually did. As the amount offered to run the program was increased from $0.01 to $10 over five weeks, the percentage of users who ran the program grew steadily and topped out at 43 percent.
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