TWC SBES: Small: Anonymity in Cyberspace

互联网用户可能有令人信服的理由在网上寻求匿名，例如，与像自己一样的人讨论侮辱问题，或表达不同意见。这个项目研究人们认为匿名意味着什么，他们的隐私和安全如何受到他们实现匿名的策略的影响，以及他们如何可能使用新的匿名服务。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，这增加了用户可能错误判断其实际匿名性的风险。该研究包括访谈、调查和实验研究，以确定导致人们渴望匿名的用户动机和实践、情境因素和个体差异。该研究调查了用户？在他们的互动中，他们避免被识别的动机，以及他们为减轻他们对自己和他们的关系所感知的风险而采用的策略。​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策略，以保护自己免受风险。该项目将通过解决SaTC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。

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.