Short Survey - Patterns in UserIDs (need help)

[nitinjindal83]

Hi,

My name is Nitin. I am a graduate student at University of Illinois at
Chicago (UIC). I am conducting a few minutes short survey on "Patterns
in Userids" for my research project. We want to study patterns in
usernames or userids created by people when they register on different
websites, etc. I would be really thankful if you could participate in
this short survey. The link is:

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The survey has been approved by Institutional Review Board of UIC.

I can assure you that this is not a hack or a spam. If you have any
doubts, you can also find the above survey link at the Department of
Computer Science's research page

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Thanks,
Nitin Jindal
Department of Computer Science
UIC
email: <snipped>

[RincewindTheWiz]

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to cut this short. You may indeed be who you claim to be and your study may be real, but you ask for a lot of sensitive information. Particularly the fact that you ask people for their full name too strikes me as too risky. With the information you're collecting a semi decent script kiddie would be half way to cracking people's web passwords, not too mention a lot of people use the same password for everything including their banking website. You want them to give you all of their aliasses/logins ?

In any case this does not belong on this forum so I'm going to edit it and please don't do it again.