TWC SBES: Small: Anonymity in Cyberspace

TWC SBES：小型：网络空间中的匿名性

• 批准号: 1221006
• 负责人: Laura Dabbish
• 金额: $ 49.81万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1221006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TWC; SBES; Small; Anonymity; Cyberspace

Internet users may have compelling reasons to seek anonymity online, for example, to discuss stigmatizing issues with others like themselves, or to express dissident opinions. This project studies what people believe it means to be anonymous online, how their privacy and security are affected by their strategies to achieve anonymity, and how they are likely to use new anonymity services. These questions are important because the traceability of users? actions across sites and contexts is ever greater, increasing risks for users who may misjudge their actual anonymity. The research involves interviews, surveys, and experimental studies to identify user motivations and practices, situational factors, and individual differences that lead people to desire anonymity. The research investigates the risks that users? perceive in their interactions, their motivations to avoid being identified, and the strategies they employ to mitigate risks they perceive to themselves and their relationships. A key component of this work is identifying cross-national and cultural differences in anonymity motivations and actions of people in countries such as China, where the government monitors and blocks Internet communications. This information will be used to design instructional materials and other tools that provide users with feedback and better strategies to protect themselves against risk. This project will inform cyberspace technical design and policy by addressing the SaTC goals of understanding, predicting and explaining prevention, attack, and defense behaviors and contributing to strategies for remediation.

互联网用户可能有令人信服的理由在网上寻求匿名，例如，与像他们一样的其他人讨论污名化问题，或表达不同意见。该项目研究人们认为在线匿名意味着什么，他们的隐私和安全如何受到他们实现匿名的策略的影响，以及他们可能如何使用新的匿名服务。这些问题很重要，因为用户的可追溯性？跨站点和上下文的操作越来越多，增加了用户可能误判其实际匿名性的风险。 该研究涉及访谈，调查和实验研究，以确定用户的动机和做法，情境因素，以及导致人们希望匿名的个体差异。该研究调查的风险，用户？他们在互动中的感知，他们避免被识别的动机，以及他们用来减轻他们对自己和他们的关系感知的风险的策略。这项工作的一个关键组成部分是确定在中国等国家，人们的匿名动机和行为的跨国和文化差异，中国政府监控和阻止互联网通信。这些信息将用于设计教学材料和其他工具，为用户提供反馈和更好的战略，以保护自己免受风险。该项目将通过解决SATC的理解，预测和解释预防，攻击和防御行为的目标，并为补救策略做出贡献，为网络空间技术设计和政策提供信息。