By Rick Wash
Home computer users frequently lack the skills necessary to ensure proper security. Hackers exploit this to control large networks of computers (‘botnets’) that are used for spam, extortion, and fraud. I integrate ideas from psychology and economics to design software that provides incentives that induce better security choices by home computer users.
Rick Wash, “Incentive Design for Home Computer Security.“ Extended Abstract at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Human Interaction 2007 Doctoral Consortium. January 2007.
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