Secure Attention Key

Posted Mar 30, 2012 5:50 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Secure Attention Key by tialaramex
Parent article: GNOME 3.4 released

Someone would have to do an experiment to check, but this wouldn't be the first time it turned out users are (in a sense) too dumb to fall for a clever trick.

Experiment showed resounding success. Only instead of “press Ctrl+Alt+Insert” they used trojans with some nonsensical premise in text and “send SMS to XXX-XXX-XXXX” (paid number, obviously) ending. Apparently this business scheme is quite profitable.