TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Studying Journalists to Identify Requirements for Usable, Secure, and Trustworthy Communication

TWC：媒介：协作：研究记者以确定可用、安全和值得信赖的通信的要求

• 批准号: 1513875
• 负责人: Kelly Caine
• 金额: $ 30.49万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1513875&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TWC; Medium; Collaborative; Studying; Journalists

This research focuses on understanding the digital security and privacy needs of journalists and their sources to evaluate and design communication technologies that better support the fundamental operations of a globally free and unfettered press. Journalists -- along with their organizations and sources -- are known to be high-risk targets for cyberattack. This community can serve as a privacy and security bellwether, motivated to use new technologies, but requiring flexibility and ease-of-use. Many existing secure tools are too cumbersome for journalists to use on a regular basis. Moreover, these tools may lack important security and privacy-protecting features that are needed not only by the large and diverse community that is part of journalistic activity, but by other individuals and groups that may have a harder time recognizing and articulating their needs. By learning about the needs and constraints of the journalism community, this project will identify both technical and training interventions that can improve the daily security and privacy of journalists, the many communities with which they interact. The researchers will perform in-depth interviews and usability tests with journalists and their sources. The insights gained will illuminate both the conceptual and technical issues they encounter with respect to cybersecurity. Using the specific risk- and resource-models relevant to these populations, the researchers will propose, prototype, and begin evaluating novel technical solutions to issues like communications metadata, as well as data management, syncing, search and permission controls, and the possibilities of trusted distributed key servers and "disappearing data." The results of this work will lay the groundwork for future technical advances, not only for journalists but also for use by researchers and organizations interested in implementing and testing these tools and processes for other communities.

这项研究重点是了解记者及其资源的数字安全和隐私需求，以评估和设计通信技术，以更好地支持全球自由和不受约束的新闻的基本运营。众所周知，记者以及他们的组织和来源是网络攻击的高风险目标。 该社区可以作为隐私和安全性领域，动机使用新技术，但需要灵活性和易用性。 许多现有的安全工具太麻烦了，记者无法定期使用。 此外，这些工具可能缺乏重要的安全性和隐私保护功能，这些功能不仅是新闻活动的一部分所需的，而且是其他个人和团体可能会更难意识到和表达其需求的其他个人和团体。通过了解新闻社区的需求和约束，该项目将确定可以改善新闻工作者的日常安全和隐私的技术和培训干预措施，以及与之互动的许多社区。 研究人员将对记者及其来源进行深入的访谈和可用性测试。 获得的见解将阐明他们在网络安全方面遇到的概念和技术问题。 使用与这些人群相关的特定风险和资源模型，研究人员将提出，原型并开始评估有关通信元数据以及数据管理，同步，搜索和权限控制以及受信任的分布式关键服务器的可能性以及“消失数据”的可能性。这项工作的结果将为未来的技术进步奠定基础，不仅是对记者，而且对于有兴趣对其他社区实施和测试这些工具和流程的研究人员和组织的使用。