Volume 14, Issue 3, Fall 2010
Wolter Pieters
Pages 194-206
Reve{a,i}ling the Risks
A Phenomenology of Information Security
In information security research, perceived security usually has a negative meaning, when it is used in contrast to actual security. From a phenomenological perspective, however, perceived security is all we have. This paper develops a phenomenological account of information security, in which a distinction is made between revealed and reveiled security instead. Linking these notions with the concepts of confidence and trust, the paper provides a phenomenological explanation of the electronic voting controversy in the Netherlands.