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    Spamming for science: Active measurement in web 2.0 abuse research

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    Authors
    West, A.
    Hayati, P.
    Potdar, Vidyasagar
    Lee, I.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    West, A. and Hayati, P. and Potdar, V. and Lee, I. 2012. Spamming for Science: Active Measurement in Web 2.0 Abuse Research, in Blyth J., Dietrich S., Camp L.J. (eds), FC 2012: Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7398, pp. 98-111. Berlin: Springer.
    Source Title
    Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    DOI
    10.1007/978-3-642-34638-5_9
    ISBN
    9783642346378
    School
    School of Information Systems
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59598
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Spam and other electronic abuses have long been a focus of computer security research. However, recent work in the domain has emphasized an economic analysis of these operations in the hope of understanding and disrupting the profit model of attackers. Such studies do not lend themselves to passive measurement techniques. Instead, researchers have become middle-men or active participants in spam behaviors; methodologies that lie at an interesting juncture of legal, ethical, and human subject (e.g., IRB) guidelines. In this work two such experiments serve as case studies: One testing a novel link spam model on Wikipedia and another using blackhat software to target blog comments and forums. Discussion concentrates on the experimental design process, especially as influenced by human-subject policy. Case studies are used to frame related work in the area, and scrutiny reveals the computer science community requires greater consistency in evaluating research of this nature.

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