Towards Understanding Connections between Security/Privacy Attitudes and Unlock Authentication

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dc.contributor.authorAviv, Adam J.
dc.contributor.authorKuber, Ravi
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T15:54:49Z
dc.date.available2018-02-06T15:54:49Z
dc.date.issued2018-02-01
dc.description.abstractIn this study, we examine the ways in which user attitudes towards privacy and security relating to mobile devices and the data stored thereon may impact the strength of unlock authentication, focusing on Android's graphical unlock patterns. We conducted an online study with Amazon Mechanical Turk (N=750) using self-reported unlock authentication choices, as well as Likert scale agreement/disagreement responses to a set of seven privacy/security prompts. We then analyzed the responses in multiple dimensions, including a straight average of the Likert responses as well as using Principle Component Analysis to expose latent factors. We found that responses to two of the seven questions proved relevant and significant. These two questions considered attitudes towards general concern for data stored on mobile devices, and attitudes towards concerns for unauthorized access by known actors. Unfortunately, larger conclusions cannot be drawn on the efficacy of the broader set of questions for exposing connections between unlock authentication strength (Pearson Rank r=−0.08, p<0.1). However, both of our factor solutions exposed differences in responses for demographics groups, including age, gender, and residence type. The findings of this study suggests that there is likely a link between perceptions of privacy/security on mobile devices and the perceived threats therein, but more research is needed, particularly on developing better survey and measurement techniques of privacy/security attitudes that relate to mobile devices specifically.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07518en_US
dc.format.extent22 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceeding preprintsen_US
dc.identifier.citationAviv, Adam J.; Kuber, Ravi; Towards Understanding Connections between Security/Privacy Attitudes and Unlock Authentication; Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), Feb. 2018; https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07518en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/7756
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUSECen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.subjectCryptography and Securityen_US
dc.subjectComputers and Societyen_US
dc.subjectHuman-Computer Interactionen_US
dc.subjectmobile devicesen_US
dc.subjectunlock authenticationen_US
dc.subjectAndroid graphical unlock patternsen_US
dc.titleTowards Understanding Connections between Security/Privacy Attitudes and Unlock Authenticationen_US
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