Paper Type
Research-in-Progress Paper
Description
The ´Theory of Planned Behaviour´ (TPB), a model from psychology to predict behaviour, is used as a theoretical foundation for an application that uses public available information of friends on Facebook to analyse their status of their privacy settings. Also one can check public-search settings of friends, check if friends became victims of clickjacking Moreover, one can help Facebook friends by posting a short tutorials on their wall about how they can improve their privacy settings. The application propagated itself virally. Among over a hundred Facebook users, one tenth changed public-search option, if it wasn´t changed already. This research in progress suggests that scholars and practitioners make use of viral techniqus to propagate security education.
FACEBOOK PRIVACY HARDENING USING VIRAL TECHNIQUES
The ´Theory of Planned Behaviour´ (TPB), a model from psychology to predict behaviour, is used as a theoretical foundation for an application that uses public available information of friends on Facebook to analyse their status of their privacy settings. Also one can check public-search settings of friends, check if friends became victims of clickjacking Moreover, one can help Facebook friends by posting a short tutorials on their wall about how they can improve their privacy settings. The application propagated itself virally. Among over a hundred Facebook users, one tenth changed public-search option, if it wasn´t changed already. This research in progress suggests that scholars and practitioners make use of viral techniqus to propagate security education.