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Female-name Chat Users Get 25 Times More Malicious Messages
Published 00:51:16 04.08.2006
A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering found that chatroom participants with female usernames received 25 times more threatening and/or sexually explicit private messages than those with male or ambiguous usernames.Female usernames, on average, received 163 malicious private messages a day in the study, conducted by Michel Cukier, assistant professor in the Center for Risk and Reliability in the Clark School's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and an affiliate of the university's Institute for Systems Research, and sophomore computer engineering student Robert Meyer.
More info can be found at :
Source
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060731153456.htm
Last update
00:51:16 04.08.2006
Published 00:51:16 04.08.2006
A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering found that chatroom participants with female usernames received 25 times more threatening and/or sexually explicit private messages than those with male or ambiguous usernames.Female usernames, on average, received 163 malicious private messages a day in the study, conducted by Michel Cukier, assistant professor in the Center for Risk and Reliability in the Clark School's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and an affiliate of the university's Institute for Systems Research, and sophomore computer engineering student Robert Meyer.
More info can be found at :
Source
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060731153456.htm
Last update
00:51:16 04.08.2006