Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers' Alley"
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| author | Dwyer, Andrew C Coles-Kemp, Lizzie Crivellaro, Clara Heath, Claude P R |
| author_facet | Dwyer, Andrew C Coles-Kemp, Lizzie Crivellaro, Clara Heath, Claude P R |
| contents | In a 'digital by default' society, essential services must be accessed online. This opens users to digital deception not only from criminal fraudsters but from a range of actors in a marketised digital economy. Using grounded empirical research from northern England, we show how supposedly 'trusted' actors, such as governments,(re)produce the insecurities and harms that they seek to prevent. Enhanced by a weakening of social institutions amid a drive for efficiency and scale, this has built a constricted, unpredictable digital channel. We conceptualise this as a "snipers' alley". Four key snipers articulated by participants' lived experiences are examined: 1) Governments; 2) Business; 3) Criminal Fraudsters; and 4) Friends and Family to explore how snipers are differentially experienced and transfigure through this constricted digital channel. We discuss strategies to re-configure the alley, and how crafting and adopting opportunity models can enable more equitable forms of security for all. |
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| spellingShingle | Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers' Alley" Dwyer, Andrew C Coles-Kemp, Lizzie Crivellaro, Clara Heath, Claude P R Human-Computer Interaction Cryptography and Security In a 'digital by default' society, essential services must be accessed online. This opens users to digital deception not only from criminal fraudsters but from a range of actors in a marketised digital economy. Using grounded empirical research from northern England, we show how supposedly 'trusted' actors, such as governments,(re)produce the insecurities and harms that they seek to prevent. Enhanced by a weakening of social institutions amid a drive for efficiency and scale, this has built a constricted, unpredictable digital channel. We conceptualise this as a "snipers' alley". Four key snipers articulated by participants' lived experiences are examined: 1) Governments; 2) Business; 3) Criminal Fraudsters; and 4) Friends and Family to explore how snipers are differentially experienced and transfigure through this constricted digital channel. We discuss strategies to re-configure the alley, and how crafting and adopting opportunity models can enable more equitable forms of security for all. |
| title | Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers' Alley" |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992 |