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Explaining Cybersecurity with Films and the Arts

In: Imagine Math 7

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  • Luca Viganò

    (King’s College London, Department of Informatics)

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There are a large number of movies, TV series, novels, short stories, and even plays about cybersecurity and, in particular, about hackers. Some are good, some are so-so, most are frankly quite bad. Some are realistic, most make cybersecurity experts cringe. In this paper, I discuss how a number of basic cybersecurity notions (and even several advanced ones) can be explained with the help of some well-known popular movies and other artworks, and some perhaps less obvious ones. I focus in particular on anonymity, pseudonymity, and authentication, but similar explanations can be given for other security properties, for the algorithms, protocols, and systems that have been developed to achieve such properties, and for the vulnerabilities and attacks that they suffer from.

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  • Luca Viganò, 2020. "Explaining Cybersecurity with Films and the Arts," Springer Books, in: Michele Emmer & Marco Abate (ed.), Imagine Math 7, pages 297-309, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-42653-8_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42653-8_18
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