Inoculating against misinformation

Inoculating the Public against Misinformation about Climate Change

public understanding of the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change can be protected (“inoculated”) against influential misinformation. Results from a large survey experiment indicate that public perceptions of the scientific consensus can be effectively inoculated against misinformation across the political spectrum. S. van der Linden,* A. Leiserowitz, S. Rosenthal, E. Maibach .......

Inoculating SSH Against Address Harvesting

Address harvesting is the act of searching a compromised host for the names and addresses of other targets to attack, such as occurs when an email virus locates target addresses from users’ address lists or mail archives. We examine how host addresses harvested from Secure Shell (SSH) clients’ known hosts files can aid those attacking SSH servers. Each user’s known hosts file contains the names...

Inoculating Relevance Feedback Against Poison Pills

Inoculating Multivariate Schemes Against Differential Attacks

We demonstrate how to prevent differential attacks on multivariate public key cryptosystems using the Plus (+) method of external perturbation. In particular, we prescribe adding as few as 10 Plus polynomials to the Perturbed Matsumoto-Imai (PMI) cryptosystem when g = 1 and r = 6, where θ is the Matsumoto-Imai exponent, n is the message length, g = gcd (θ, n), and r is the internal perturbation...

Inoculating Against Pro-Plagiarism Justifications: Rational and Affective Strategies

Student plagiarism continues to threaten academic integrity. This investigation assessed whether an inoculation message strategy could combat university plagiarism by protecting student attitudes against pro-plagiarism justification arguments. Additionally, we sought theoretical confirmation of previous findings on involvement and accessibility in inoculation, examined the effects on vested int...