Abstract
Security is not an isolated good, but just one component of a complicated economy. That imposes limitations on how effective it can be. The interactions of human society and human nature suggest that security will continue being applied as an afterthought. We will have to put up with the equivalent of bailing wire and chewing gum, and to live on the edge of intolerable frustration. However, that is not likely to to be a fatal impediment to the development and deployment of information technology. It will be most productive to think of security not as a way to provide ironclad protection, but the equivalent of speed bumps, decreasing the velocity and impact of electronic attacks to a level where other protection mechanisms can operate.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Anderson, R.J.: Liability and Computer Security – Nine Principles. In: Gollmann, D. (ed.) ESORICS 1994. LNCS, vol. 875. Springer, Heidelberg (1994), Available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14
Anderson, R.J.: Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems. Wiley, Chichester (2001)
Cosmides, L., Tooby, J.: Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer, Available at http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
Geer, D.: Risk Management is Where the Money Is. Risks Digest 20(6) ( Novemnber 12, 1998), Available at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.06.html
Norris, F.: No positives in this legal double negative. New York Times (January 24, 2003)
Odlyzko, A.M.: The Bumpy Road of Electronic Commerce. In: Maurer, H. (ed.) WebNet 1996 – World Conf. Web Soc. Proc. AACE, pp. 378–389 (1996), Available at http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/recent.html
Odlyzko, A.M.: The Visible Problems of the Invisible Computer: A Skeptical Look at Information Appliances. First Monday 4(9) (September 1999), http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_9/odlyzko/index.html , Also available at http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/recent.html
Odlyzko, A.M.: Cryptographic Abundance and Pervasive Computing. iMP: Information Impacts Magazine (June 2000), http://www.cisp.org/imp/june_2000/06_00odlyzko-insight.htm , Also available at http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/recent.html
Static Control Corporation: Computer Chip Usage in Toner Cartridges and Impact on the Market: Past, Current and Future. White paper, October 23 (2002), available at http://www.scc-inc.com/special/oemwarfare/default.htm
Schneier, B.: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. Wiley, Chichester (2000)
Workshop on Economics and Information Security, May 16-17 (2002), Program and papers or abstracts available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/affiliates/workshops/econsecurity/
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Odlyzko, A. (2003). Economics, Psychology, and Sociology of Security. In: Wright, R.N. (eds) Financial Cryptography. FC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45126-6_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45126-6_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-40663-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-45126-6
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive