McDonalds employees set world record for idiotcy

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I read some long reviews of it. Apparently he was only an average hacker but had great people skills, and most of the real juice of what he did was simply by talking to people on the phone and getting them to surrender information. It was kind of creepy.

People are terribly sloppy with this kind of thing regularly. I think most people don't really understand how common and bad this kind of thing is. If you're an employer, you can find out all kinds of things about people, etc. Or if you're a snoopy employee, like the bank tellers who check out the credit histories of guys they want to date(my friend tells me the girls in banks did this all the time when he worked there, though it's illegal).

What gets me is that, according to the abcnews.com article, the guy on the phone had been doing this to other people for about ten years. I guess they caught him. He specifically targeted fast food restaurants, apparently because they're trained to operate by the book. Once they're on their own, they're lost. Disgusting.

ScottieK

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Holy [censored], I've ate at that McDonalds before HAHAHAHA

Mt. Washington isn't too far from Louisville. It's REALLY small and there are some strange people out there.

It just goes to show that once you get outside of the major cities in KY, [censored] just gets stupid.

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Holy [censored], I've ate at that McDonalds before HAHAHAHA

Mt. Washington isn't too far from Louisville. It's REALLY small and there are some strange people out there.

It just goes to show that once you get in KY, [censored] just gets stupid.

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Holy [censored], I've ate at that McDonalds before HAHAHAHA

Mt. Washington isn't too far from Louisville. It's REALLY small and there are some strange people out there.

It just goes to show that once you get in KY, [censored] just gets stupid.

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OMFGROFLBBQ!!!! You are so clever!

Edit: So clever that you can't even bold something right. Moran.

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does anyone else think it's possible that any of us would do something comparably irresponsible in this situation? seriously. I don't think this has much to do with intelligence. I think it has to do with a subscription to authority.

there was a psychological study a while back on the effects of authority (I forget the name of it, maybe someone knows). some random people were told they were participating in a study on the effects of electricity on the human body. they were sat in front of a video monitor where they could see their human subject (an actor), and a control pad for administering different "shocks." they were told to administer higher and higher levels of shocks until the actor would be writhing on the floor in pain.

many of the participants continued to administer the shocks until the subject "passed out."

I'm not saying that you guys would force an underage girl to give you head. but it's easy to say "god, people are so dumb sometimes." and it annoys me when it's dismissed as being that simple. it's not. it's human nature. and blaming it on so-called stupidity isn't doing anything to help the problem.

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I highly doubt that anybody in this thread is attempting to help the problem, and that's not a criticism of either them or the thread.

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That is completly different than what happened at McDonalds. First off they weren't administering the shocks to themselves. Secondly, shocking someone in a labratory experiment situation is infinetly less stupid than striping or administering a strip search on the request of a cop on a phone. I'm not even going to get into the fellatio.

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I'm not even going to get into the fellatio.

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Unless you get really desperate.

[jesusarenque]

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does anyone else think it's possible that any of us would do something comparably irresponsible in this situation? seriously. I don't think this has much to do with intelligence. I think it has to do with a subscription to authority.

there was a psychological study a while back on the effects of authority (I forget the name of it, maybe someone knows). some random people were told they were participating in a study on the effects of electricity on the human body. they were sat in front of a video monitor where they could see their human subject (an actor), and a control pad for administering different "shocks." they were told to administer higher and higher levels of shocks until the actor would be writhing on the floor in pain.

many of the participants continued to administer the shocks until the subject "passed out."

I'm not saying that you guys would force an underage girl to give you head. but it's easy to say "god, people are so dumb sometimes." and it annoys me when it's dismissed as being that simple. it's not. it's human nature. and blaming it on so-called stupidity isn't doing anything to help the problem.

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