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Please help my schoolwork by going to this link and completing the survey. It should take about 15-20 minutes, and you have a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift certificate. If you could do it over the next few days, it would be really great. Thanks.
Below is our official invite.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers are conducting a web-based survey about online communication habits. If you complete this survey, you could win one of three $50 Amazon.com gift certificates! Odds of winning depend on the number of entrants, but are guaranteed 1:500 or better. The study takes 15-20 minutes.
To participate in the survey, go to http://tinyurl.com/4gju65
Thank you for your help.
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I just did the survey. Some of the questions did not seem to make sense. I wonder how useful answers you are going to get to this question (requiring a verbal answer): “How do you try to prevent others from gaining access to your online communication? (For example, on Facebook you could send a message directly to a user rather than posting a comment on their “wall”.)”
Also, the questions about project security and access to info for a new employee and somebody who is fired felt a bit odd. It is about elementary corporate security. You would not expect somebody in charge of a project to actually disclose their security methods in detail but then again, very general answers may not be useful for the survey. Maybe some options rather than written answers would have produced better survey data.
Thanks for the feedback. Yep, some of the wording could be a bit better… it used to be much worse though, we did a pilot before deploying it.
“It is about elementary corporate security” — I think you are an optimist here. You wouldn’t believe how many businesses don’t have organized procedures around this or aren’t applying them consistently. And we’re definitely not trying to get anybody’s security mechanism details, but rather general approach.
Done!
However, i agree with Larko. On the other hand written responses can teach you more, but are more difficult to interpret and to transform in statistical data.
Project protection (security of information) has mainly to do with human behaviour and inherent flaws, and less with procedures or technology.
If i really want to steal information, any means is OK: printouts, memory sticks, file transfers, voice, cameras, or even “my own memory”!
I agree however that for critical projects procedures should be developed, and most of all be sure you have a very good team who behave like a bunch of friends working on a challenge.