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Not That Kind of Friend

Misleading Divergences between Online Social Networks and Real-World Social Protocols

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Security Protocols XVII (Security Protocols 2009)

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Current social networking technology provides users with little of the privacy that they expect and are promised. While some individuals may truly wish to be “open books,” violating most users’ privacy expectations leads to serious consequences for both the users and their network. We propose that, in order for users to truly be in control of their personal information, we need to respect and learn from the social protocols that have been built up over the millennia.

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  1. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

    Jonathan Anderson & Frank Stajano

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK

    Bruce Christianson , James A. Malcolm  & Michael Roe ,  & 

  2. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Vashek Matyáš

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Anderson, J., Stajano, F. (2013). Not That Kind of Friend. In: Christianson, B., Malcolm, J.A., Matyáš, V., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols XVII. Security Protocols 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7028. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36213-2_37

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