Shoulder Surfing On the Rise - What?
Posted: 20th Apr, 2007 By: MarkJ
Shoulder surfing, the act of reading information off the screen of a strangers computer or mobile phone without their permission, has reportedly become very common. Roughly 80% of Britons now admit to doing it:
The Web-User item notes that just 5% of people would be prepared to confront someone they suspected of being a shoulder surfer. Certainly there are few things more annoying than somebody looking over your shoulder while you're attempting to write a private e-mail.
However we do have a solution, it's called 'pencil to the eye'. For legal reasons we can neither elaborate nor recommend it =).
But it isn't just the printed word we're interested in - more than half of the people surveyed in a poll by technology company 3M admitted to looking at another's laptop and 26 per cent read the text messages on other's mobile phones.
Nick Hughes, business development manager at 3M, said: Shoulder surfing can be very uncomfortable for laptop users working on sensitive information in very public places.
An inquisitive demeanour is human nature. Reading over someone's shoulder may not be done for any malicious reasons but it happens nonetheless, said Hughes.
Nick Hughes, business development manager at 3M, said: Shoulder surfing can be very uncomfortable for laptop users working on sensitive information in very public places.
An inquisitive demeanour is human nature. Reading over someone's shoulder may not be done for any malicious reasons but it happens nonetheless, said Hughes.
The Web-User item notes that just 5% of people would be prepared to confront someone they suspected of being a shoulder surfer. Certainly there are few things more annoying than somebody looking over your shoulder while you're attempting to write a private e-mail.
However we do have a solution, it's called 'pencil to the eye'. For legal reasons we can neither elaborate nor recommend it =).
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