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Max Maurer
Community-Based Security and Privacy Protection During Web Browsing
6th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), Redmond, WA, July 2010 (bib)

When surfing the web today people want to be secure and their data to remain private. Internet users however do not see the protection of their privacy or security as the primary goal of their activity. They do not care for their online security and privacy actively [3]. Frequently appearing unnecessary warning messages constantly lower the users' trust in those warnings. In this work, we present rst ideas of a community based approach known from rating systems in online shopping to provide others with security and privacy relevant information on arbitrary websites. Such a system could then be used to warn users about critical websites and reestablish the users' trust in warning messages.