Who Comes Up with this Stuff? Interviewing Authors to Understand How They Produce...
summary
Semi-structured interviews with 21 authors reveal authors follow a gather-draft-review-publish loop, rely on 20 external sources but only four are common across authors, and cover 14 topics while only online fraud and passwords reach even five mentions; authors rarely deprioritize advice and typically update content only after incidents. The paper quantifies inconsistent sourcing, overproduction, and scope uncertainty and recommends proactive curation, scheduled reviews, and early human-centered engagement.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Security advice research intro
- 1:32Motivations of advice authors
- 3:41Writing security advice process
- 4:43Prioritizing novel threats
- 5:49Most and least covered topics
- 7:11Sources for advice writing
- 8:16Defining advice scope challenges
- 9:42Better advice curation recommendations
- 11:06Study conclusions & Q&A
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