Towards an Empirical Measure for Assessing Public Attitudes Regarding Government Cybercrime Countermeasures

摘要

The paper describes the preliminary methodological outcomes and findings from a long-term, exploratory research program on cybercrime countermeasures designed to isolate behavioral or demographic correlates associated with public acceptance or rejection. Specifically, the study is assessing the differential magnitude of cyber threat awareness, as well as the differential perceptions of the threat among different subgroups in the American populace. In other words, how would different segments of the American public (e.g., men, women, ethnic groups, economic class, computer users versus non-computer users) respond to the idea of cybercrime countermeasures of varying scope and intensity?