Questioning Advice: Rethinking Cybercrime Education

Show Notes:

Elissa Redmiles:

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~eredmiles/

Papers Mentioned in this Episode.

Redmiles, E. M., Kross, S., & Mazurek, M. L. (2016, October). How i learned to be secure: a census-representative survey of security advice sources and behavior. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 666-677).

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2976749.2978307

Redmiles, E. M., Kross, S., & Mazurek, M. L. (2017, May). Where is the digital divide? a survey of security, privacy, and socioeconomics. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 931-936).

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3025453.3025673

Redmiles, E. M., Warford, N., Jayanti, A., Koneru, A., Kross, S., Morales, M., ... & Mazurek, M. L. (2020). A comprehensive quality evaluation of security and privacy advice on the web. In 29th {USENIX} Security Symposium ({USENIX} Security 20) (pp. 89-108).

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/redmiles

Redmiles, E. M., Mazurek, M. L., & Dickerson, J. P. (2018, June). Dancing pigs or externalities? measuring the rationality of security decisions. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (pp. 215-232).

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3219166.3219185

Redmiles, E. M. (2019). Quality and Inequity in Digital Security Education (Doctoral dissertation).

https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/25404

The Evening statesman., March 20, 1906, Page TWO

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085421/1906-03-20/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1777&index=4&rows=20&words=Prisoner+prisoner+Spanish&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Spanish+Prisoner&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

This scam was about Spanish prisoner fraud, which is an old form of advance fee fraud.  You can see an example of one from 1903  that is being sold from an action house here:

https://www.pbagalleries.com/images/lot/1209/12090_0.jpg

Probably the first record of these is in a New York Times articles titled "AN OLD SWINDLE REVIVED", from Dec. 26, 1878 

Read more here:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-9-lives-of-the-spanish-prisoner-the-treasure-dangling-scam-that-wont-die

This episodes music samples old traffic safety videos found at the Prelinger Archives available at archive.org.