On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 01:50:36PM -0400, Stephen Kent wrote: > accordingly? My position, in > part, is that people behave in a fashion that suggests that personal > privacy is not a very > high priority when it comes to use of the Internet.
While I have some sympathy for the above, I think it runs the risk of a considerable oversimplification of the behaviour model of users. Most importantly, I think it contains in it the sort of picture of end users that is frequently part of _homo economicus_: a rational, good-maximising agent. Just as in economics, however, I suspect that peoples' security decision-making actually relies on a number of principles that we can scarcely believe are rational. For instance, it could just as easily be that people using privacy-invading apps have convinced themselves of the utility of data protection policies, or think that they're too individually insignificant for anyone to care about. There could also be (suppressed) cognitivie dissonance involved. Finally, there's the issue of how usable much of the security support in systems is when actual users encounter it. Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
