Name
Abstract | ||
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Spam and other electronic abuses have long been a focus of computer security research. However, recent work in the domain has emphasized an economic analysis of these operations in the hope of understanding and disrupting the profit model of attackers. Such studies do not lend themselves to passive measurement techniques. Instead, researchers have become middle-men or active participants in spam behaviors; methodologies that lie at an interesting juncture of legal, ethical, and human subject (e.g., IRB) guidelines. In this work two such experiments serve as case studies: One testing a novel link spam model on Wikipedia and another using blackhat software to target blog comments and forums. Discussion concentrates on the experimental design process, especially as influenced by human-subject policy. Case studies are used to frame related work in the area, and scrutiny reveals the computer science community requires greater consistency in evaluating research of this nature. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1007/978-3-642-34638-5_9 | Financial Cryptography Workshops |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
blackhat software,blog comment,computer security research,computer science community,novel link spam model,recent work,spam behavior,active measurement,active participant,case study,abuse research,profit model | Internet privacy,Attack model,Profit model,Active measurement,Computer security,Computer science,Software,Web 2.0,Design process,Scrutiny,Spamming | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 19 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew G. West | 1 | 192 | 12.49 |
| Pedram Hayati | 2 | 52 | 5.64 |
| Vidyasagar Potdar | 3 | 303 | 35.24 |
| Insup Lee | 4 | 4996 | 413.64 |