3 papers
cs.HC2025
"My Whereabouts, my Location, it's Directly Linked to my Physical Security": An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Location-Dependent Security and Privacy Perceptions among Activist Tech Users
Christian Eichenmüller, Lisa Kuhn, Zinaida Benenson
Digital-safety research with at-risk users is particularly urgent. At-risk users are more likely to be digitally attacked or targeted by surveillance and could be disproportionatel…
cs.CR2024
Experiencing Apple's Lockdown Mode -- The Challenges of Providing Technology for At-Risk Users
Benedikt Mader, Christian Eichenmüller, Christian Eichenmüller +3
Lockdown Mode, introduced in 2022 as an optional security hardening setting for Apple's operating systems, aims to protect users from "some of the most sophisticated digital threat…
cs.CR2024
Shedding Light on CVSS Scoring Inconsistencies: A User-Centric Study on Evaluating Widespread Security Vulnerabilities
Julia Wunder, Andreas Kurtz, Christian Eichenmüller +2
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a popular method for evaluating the severity of vulnerabilities in vulnerability management. In the evaluation process, a numeric…