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The growing risk of novel cyber physical attacks via social engineering and its implications for technological determinism
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The growing risk of novel cyber physical attacks via social engineering and its implications for technological determinism

Cody Holl
Master of Science (M.S.), Drexel University
Dec 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00001352
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Computer sciences Cyber-physical systems Emotional contagion Cyberphilosophy January 6th Social media self-control failure Technological determinism Philosophy Psychology
The goal of this paper is to outline how social media has the potential to be utilized as a tool to mobilize radicalized groups and manipulate them into committing cyber physical attacks. The purpose is to bring attention to recent domestic terrorist attacks and social unrest and reframe them as results of cyber physical attacks. This paper covers the constantly growing social media userbase online resulting in an expanding resource pool for bad actors. This will include annual userbase growth, social media platform penetration rates, daily social media usage in minutes, and social media self-control failure. The growth of social media adoption may result in more polarized social networks as new users congregate with other users with similar interests and opinions. Online social network polarization will be examined including the causes of this polarization. Additionally, the radicalization of polarized online social groups will be analyzed along with tools created specifically to exasperate and expedite this process. Furthermore, this paper will examine the effects of social contagion in an online social network with consideration of the implications technological determinism has on that network.

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