This paper rigorously investigates how users' security beliefs, knowledge, and demographics correlate with their sources of security advice, and how all these factors influence security behaviors. We find evidence of a "digital divide" in security: the advice sources of users with higher skill levels and socioeconomic status differ from those with fewer resources. This digital security divide may add to the vulnerability of already disadvantaged users.
| Construct | Cites | Category | Questions given? | Content validity | Pretests | Response type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| web-use skills index | Hargittai, 2012 | no | cognitive interviews and expert reviews | none | unclear | ||
| digital and physical security advice sources | NEW | no | cognitive interviews and expert reviews | none | unclear | ||
| beliefs about the purpose and value of different digital-security behaviors | NEW | no | cognitive interviews and expert reviews | none | unclear | ||
| importance and utility of digital and physical security advice | NEW | no | cognitive interviews and expert reviews | none | unclear |
Elissa M. Redmiles, Sean Kross, and Michelle L. Mazurek. 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, 666–677. ACM, 2016. doi:10.1145/2976749.2978307.
@inproceedings{redmiles_how_2016,
author = {Redmiles, Elissa M. and Kross, Sean and Mazurek, Michelle L.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 {{ACM SIGSAC Conference}} on {{Computer}} and {{Communications Security}}},
doi = {10.1145/2976749.2978307},
pages = {666--677},
publisher = {{ACM}},
shorttitle = {How i Learned to Be Secure},
title = {How i Learned to Be Secure: A Census-Representative Survey of Security Advice Sources and Behavior},
year = {2016}
}