I'm probably not making friends this week. There was a survey from IEEE, and since I teach research and sometimes think I should support research, I went and filled it out. Supposedly anonymous and purely for research purposes . . .
( The puncturing of the balloon . . .  )
Abusing public trust may be a one-time winning move, but in the long run it destroys the social economy of trust that we all depend on. Not a good idea. Now the question is whether or not I can explain that to a marketeer.