There were 25 participants in this pilot. We paid more ($4.50) since the survey now takes a median of ~15 minutes. We learned that the great majority of people have lost photos and emails. Loss, it seems, is expected. This seems to capture something that our event-focused scenarios do not.
The new event-focused scenarios seem to capture a good deal of what our old event-focused scenarios missed.
Participants started by writing loss stories about the three worst technology-related harms they had experienced.
We then told participants we would "describe technology-related harms that that have happened to others, and ask if they have also happened to" them.
New GraphsSummary Across ScenariosThe percent of participants who had experienced each harm scenario. Losses due to failures of security measures to protect participants from attack are paired (left bar) against harms due to security measures themselves harming participants (right bar).
When participants reported having suffered one of the described scenarios, we asked them how recently they had experienced it.
The absolute number of participants who had experienced each harm scenario for each level of recency.Recovery duration for each scenario (absolute figures).Have older people experienced more types of harmful events?Scenario Pair: Device Compromise & Lockout
We asked participants who had a device compromised/stolen or locked what type of device it was. (If they had experienced more than one incident of a scenario we asked about the worst.)
The absolute number of devices of each type that participants had suffered the compromise of (left bar in pair) or had been locked out of (right bar in pair).How devices were compromised.How users were locked out of their devices.Scenario Pair: Email/File Account Compromise & LockoutThe types of accounts that participants had suffered the compromise of (left bar in pair) or had been locked out of (right bar in pair).Scenario Pair: Social Account Compromise & LockoutThe types of social accounts that participants had suffered the compromise of (left bar in pair) or had been locked out of (right bar in pair).Scenario Pair: Financial Account Compromise & LockoutThe types of financial accounts that participants had suffered the compromise of (left bar in pair) or had been locked out of (right bar in pair).Scenario: Replaced/Upgrade Device/OSScenario: Broken Promises and Unexpected BehaviorsScenario: AbuseDemographics