<story><title>Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/03/fake-femme-fatale-dupes-it-guys-at-us-government-agency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Amadou</author><text>There was a comment in the story that I think is misleading - &lt;i&gt;Attractive women can open locked doors in the male-dominated IT industry.&lt;/i&gt;  Attractive women can do that in &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; industry, it doesn&amp;#x27;t need to be male dominated.  Men are stupid that way (if we weren&amp;#x27;t stupid that way birth rates would probably be 1&amp;#x2F;100th of what they are now), you only need a handful of men to have a good probability of finding at least one who is thinking with more than one brain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nether</author><text>I doubt a pretty girl would have so many employees bending over backward to help her if they were all women. You&amp;#x27;re kidding yourself if you think a female-dominated industry wouldn&amp;#x27;t have handled her more appropriately.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/03/fake-femme-fatale-dupes-it-guys-at-us-government-agency/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Amadou</author><text>There was a comment in the story that I think is misleading - &lt;i&gt;Attractive women can open locked doors in the male-dominated IT industry.&lt;/i&gt;  Attractive women can do that in &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; industry, it doesn&amp;#x27;t need to be male dominated.  Men are stupid that way (if we weren&amp;#x27;t stupid that way birth rates would probably be 1&amp;#x2F;100th of what they are now), you only need a handful of men to have a good probability of finding at least one who is thinking with more than one brain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>detcader</author><text>I think the point was that _because_ men dominate the computer industry, you will have an easier time targeting IT systems for exploitation with this method.</text></comment>