Sometimes threats come from inside the system (content warning: intimate partner violence).
Rethinking Risk
This week we're talking with Julia about how to model risk when the threat is known and trusted (e.g., coercion, manipulation and surveillance).
Julia Slupska is a doctoral student at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity and the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on technologically-mediated abuse like image-based sexual abuse ('revenge porn') and stalking, as well as emotion, care and metaphors in cybersecurity.
Julia's recent papers: Aiding Intimate Violence Survivors in Lockdown: Lessons about Digital Security in the Covid-19 Pandemic (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491101.3503548); Cybersecurity must learn from and support advocates tackling online gender-based violence (https://unidir.org/commentary/cybersecurity-online-GBV).
In this episode we refer to: Ashkan Soltani's article on what 'abusability' is (https://www.wired.com/story/abusability-testing-ashkan-soltani); an example of intimidation during court proceedings held over Zoom court hearing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgz3Tx69zXk); Trust and Usability Toolkit (https://northumbria.design/projects/trust-and-abusability-toolkit); RightsCon (FREE tickets until June 3rd 2022, rightscon.org/attend); USENIX conference (Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect, or PEPR).
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