VPNs AND ENCRYPTION AS BOUNDARY OBJECTS OF THE INTERNET: (MIS)TRUST IN THE TRANSLATION(S) | Zendy

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VPNs AND ENCRYPTION AS BOUNDARY OBJECTS OF THE INTERNET: (MIS)TRUST IN THE TRANSLATION(S)

Author(s) -

Luke Heemsbergen,

Ádám Molnár

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

aoir selected papers of internet research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2162-3317

DOI - 10.5210/spir.v2019i0.10982

Subject(s) - the internet , boundary (topology) , identity (music) , sociology , encryption , cyberspace , internet privacy , politics , computer science , world wide web , public relations , computer security , political science , aesthetics , law , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy

How do users come to trust VPNs? How do they understand end-to-end encrypted messaging technologies? How can we discern what these objects are as they tack back and forth between metaphor and technical processes to garner usership and critique? This paper aims to answer these questions by considering VPNs and e2e encryption as boundary objects of the internet pertinent to a study of (dis)trust in the system.

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