I’m liveblogging the Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour which is being held at CMU. For background, see the liveblogs for SHB 2010, SHB2009 and SHB2008. The papers are here and the session reports will appear as followups to this post.
I’m at SHB 2010, which brings security engineers together with psychologists, behavioral economists and others interested in deception, fraud, fear, risk perception and how we make security systems more usable. Here is the agenda. I will be liveblogging the event in comments below this post. Here are the liveblogs for SHB 2009 and SHB 2008.
Facebook is rolling out two new features with privacy implications, an app dashboard and a gaming dashboard. Take a 30 second look at the beta versions which are already live (with real user data) and see if you spot any likely problems. For the non-Facebook users, the new interfaces essentially provide a list of applications … Continue reading The need for privacy ombudsmen
I’m at SHB 2009, which brings security engineers together with psychologists, behavioral economists and others interested in deception, fraud, fearmongering, risk perception and how we make security systems more usable. Here is the agenda. This workshop was first held last year, and most of us who attended reckoned it was the most exciting event we’d … Continue reading Security and Human Behaviour 2009
I’m currently in the first Workshop on security and human behaviour; at MIT, which brings together security engineers, psychologists and others interested in topics ranging from deception through usability to fearmongering. Here’s the agenda and here are the workshop papers. The first session, on deception, was fascinating. It emphasised the huge range of problems, from … Continue reading Security psychology