This week on the podcast, Gilbert Wondracek, research fellow at the International Secure Systems Lab and postdoctoral fellow at the Vienna University of Technology, discusses his research on the online porn industry. He addresses various economic roles of online porn providers and the industry’s connections to malware and cybercrime. Wondracek also explains how he investigated the industry, how he set up adult websites to assess user vulnerabilities and examine traffic, what he learned, and how he got approval for the project.
Related Readings
- “Is the Internet for Porn? An Insight Into the Online Adult Industry” (pdf), by Wondracek et al.
- “How the Internet Porn Business Works”, MIT Technology Review blog
- “Slave Master: How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain”, Salvo Magazine
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“Measuring Porn’s Effects: What About the Users?”, Psychology Today
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