[liberationtech] New article from the Cybernorms Research Group

Dear all, Just wanted to inform you about the latest article from the Cybernorms Research Group; Larsson, Svensson de Kaminski: Online piracy, anonymity and social change: Innovation through deviance, which is using Merton’s strain theory in order to analyse the levels of encrypted anonymity

[liberationtech] Ideas for MSc research into HCI, security tools, and privacy.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I am currently researching ideas for my masters in human computer systems thesis. I am a mobile telecoms engineer by profession, but am interested in HCI, tools that help maintain your security, secure communications, and privacy concerns.

Re: [liberationtech] Ideas for MSc research into HCI, security tools, and privacy.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bernard, There are two areas where I'd love to see some research. The first is the effect of provenance on perceptions of security: when deciding how secure they believe a tool to be, how strongly are people influenced by their knowledge of who

Re: [liberationtech] Ideas for MSc research into HCI, security tools, and privacy.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/09/12 16:56, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: I have the feeling (backed up by observation) there is a similar approach by some people open source software, where the argument of the developer is good so s/he wouldn't do anything bad.