Usability and privacy: a study of Kazaa P2P file-sharing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense
The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense
Kleptography: using cryptography against cryptography
EUROCRYPT'97 Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
NSPW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on New Security Paradigms
RAID'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Recent advances in intrusion detection
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We study malware propagation strategies which exploit not the incompetence or naivety of users, but instead their own greed, malice and short-sightedness. We demonstrate that interactive propagation strategies, for example bribery and blackmail of computer users, are effective mechanisms for malware to survive and entrench, and present an example employing these techniques. We argue that in terms of propagation, there exists a continuum between legitimate applications and pure malware, rather than a quantised scale.