Friday 21 April 2017

A quiz

I've read some thought provoking statistics lately. I wouldn't have done very well at the quiz I've constructed with them below: see how you do

1. What proportion of prisoners in jails in England and Wales are Muslims?

2. What percentage of the prison population in France is Muslim?

3. What percentage of attempted logins on the world's banks, retailers, airlines and government departments are made by cyber hackers?

4. What was the password Mark Zuckerberg (of Facebook) used for his Twitter and Pinterest accounts that were hacked?


Answers.

1. One in seven. As Niall Ferguson said in the Sunday Times "Guess what goes on there - clue: it's not like an episode of Porridge. The number of Muslim prisoners doubled between 2004 and 2014

2. About 60-70%, compared with 8% in the French population, also according to Niall Ferguson. The French authorities reckon they have 11,400 radical Islamists. It is projected that our Muslim population will be about the same as France's is now by 2030.

3. 90% according to the chief technology officer of Shape Security a Silicon Valley cyber specialist company. Most of these attempts are made by botnets, computers or networked devices which have been hijacked and run the hacking software without the user of the computer being aware. Between 0.1 and 2% of these attempts are successful

4. Amazingly it was "dadada". Zuckerberg is the 5th richest man in the world......




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