Abstract
Human attention is a scarce resource, and lack thereof can cause severe security breaches. As most security techniques rely on considerate human intervention in one way or another, this resource should be consumed economically. In this context, we postulate the view that every false alarm or unnecessary user interaction imposes a negative externality on all other potential consumers of this chunk of attention. The paper identifies incentive problems that stimulate overconsumption of human attention in security applications. It further outlines a lump-of-attention model, devised against the backdrop of established theories in the behavioral sciences, and discusses incentive mechanisms to fix the misallocation problem in security notification, for instance the idea of a Pigovian tax on attention consumption.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | NSPW'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 New Security Paradigms Workshop |
| Pages | 67-82 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
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| State | Published - Dec 1 2011 |
| Event | 2011 New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW'11 - Marin County, CA, United States Duration: Sep 12 2011 → Sep 15 2011 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings New Security Paradigms Workshop |
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Other
| Other | 2011 New Security Paradigms Workshop, NSPW'11 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Marin County, CA |
| Period | 9/12/11 → 9/15/11 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Hardware and Architecture
- Software
- Information Systems
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The security cost of cheap user interaction. / Böhme, Rainer; Grossklags, Jens.
NSPW'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 New Security Paradigms Workshop. 2011. p. 67-82 (Proceedings New Security Paradigms Workshop).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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