Abstract
We explore a dataset of app developer reasoning to better understand the reasons that may inadvertently promote or demote app developers' prioritization of security. We identify a number of reasons: caring vs. fear of users, the impact of norms, and notions of 'otherness' and 'self' in terms of belonging to groups. Based on our preliminary findings, we propose an interdisciplinary research agenda to explore the impact of social identity (a psychological theory) on developers' security rationales, and how this could be leveraged to guide developers towards making more secure choices.
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Rauf, I., Van Der Linden, Di., Levine, M., Towse, J., Nuseibeh, B., & Rashid, A. (2020). Security but not for security’s sake: The impact of social considerations on app developers’ choices. In Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops, ICSEW 2020 (pp. 141–144). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.3392230
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