Poll - how accessible is hacking?

Yesterday we revealed that people can learn how to hack into someone’s account in less than 15 minutes. In a controlled ‘classroom’ experiment, a small group of volunteers with limited technological knowledge followed a online tutorial using a ‘man in the middle’ technique to hack into a computer network and obtain each other’s login details.

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