WEBSITES AND EMAIL ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP

By: Nahed AlnahashDr. Wenjin Zhou

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websites

Motivation

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Thesis Statement We may all be faced with dangers from using an email

address as an identity of most of websites. These dangers can be solved by changing textual password

to picture password and using authentication code as a last step to access websites.

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Contributions of the Thesis1. Writing survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to

the use of their email address.

2. Explain and analyze the result of my survey and discuss security and privacy problems related to that.

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Related Work There has been some related work on risks of using email address

as an identity. [Lei et al. ,2010] wrote a survey focus on users behaviors related to the use of their email address that include 74 participants.[1]

[Lei et al. ,2010] they shown that the 67.7% of the participants using their primary email address during registration.[1]

[Florencio et al., 2007] have shown that participants use the same passwords on average in 3 different websites.[2]

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1907409#citedby

[2] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74162/hotsec07.pdf

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OutlineMotivationThesis StatementContributions of the ThesisRelated WorkMethodsResultContributionConclusion

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Methods My survey is focused on users’ behaviors related to the use

of their email address. Include 116 participants who responded to the survey. It is include 21 questions. Collected data and used it to analyze the relationship

between users’ behaviors and security and privacy problems.

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Methods Cont…. Analyze the result based on the related to the use of

primary email address. 63% * 49% = 30.9%

Using Primary Email and Same Password

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Methods Cont… Using primary email address as an identity on the social

websites 55% * 77% = 42.4%

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Methods Cont… Assuming that 25% of the participants using their Hotmail

accounts in (e.g. FaceBook)

30.9% * 42.4% * 25% = 3.3%

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Result From the result that what I got :

30.9% (using email address with same password) 42.4% (using primary email address as identity on the social

websites) 3.3% (when assuming that 25% of the participants using

primary email in FaceBook)

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Result Cont… From the survey I found that the 81% from the participants have

1-3 email 41% they are remembering 3 passwords. I recommend to change textual password to picture password

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Result Cont… Add second step to authorize the users by sending an

verification code.

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Contributions1. Writing survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to

the use of their email address.

2. Explain and analyze the result of my survey and discuss security and privacy problems related to that.

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OutlineMotivationThesis StatementContributions of the ThesisRelated WorkMethodsResultContributionConclusion

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Conclusion I wrote a survey that focuses on users’ behaviors related to

using email address as identity in websites. Analyze the result. Recommend some ideas that will contribute to avoid

hacker.

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Questions??

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Acknowledgements Special thanks and appreciate for you, Dr.

Wenjin Zhou. My husband. Susan Sabra. All my classmate.

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Thank you!