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Scaring and Bullying People into Security Won't Work

Sasse, A; (2015) Scaring and Bullying People into Security Won't Work. IEEE Security & Privacy , 13 (3) pp. 80-83. 10.1109/MSP.2015.65. Green open access

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Abstract

Users will pay attention to reliable and credible indicators of risks they want to avoid. Security mechanisms with a high false positive rate undermine the credibility of security and train users to ignore them. We need more accurate detection and better security tools if we are to regain users' attention and respect, rather than scare, trick, and bully them into complying with security measures that obstruct human endeavors.

Type: Article
Title: Scaring and Bullying People into Security Won't Work
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2015.65
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2015.65
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Keywords: Computer security, Privacy, Economics, Human factors, Psychology, alarm fatigue, security, usability, passwords
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1495933
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