Incentive Design for Home Computer Security
by: Rick Wash
Abstract
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.
Reference
Rick Wash. “Incentive Design for Home Computer Security.” Extended Abstract in Doctoral Colloquium, at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI).May 2007.
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