Consent to research

Notification of Research

Your participation in this and related research is entirely voluntary. The data collected and communications associated with your participation in the research will be stored and used for future security research, including (but not limited to) publication as a widely available data set.

This research asks participants to detonate malicious sofrware but is at the discretion of the participant. To the extent allowed by law, we limit the viewing of your results to only those people who have a need to review it. We cannot promise complete secrecy. Affiliates of the QueryLab project and other representatives of this project may inspect a copy of your results. Upon completion of this data collection project, your personal data will be kept for no longer than three years, after which they will be erased. If reports of studies resulting from your participation in this survey are published, or the results are presented at professional conferences, only group results or excerpts of individual data captures will be stated, without any reference to your personally identifying information.

No risks are anticipated from taking part in this research. If for any reason, at any time, you wish to stop participation in data collection for this research, you may do so without having to provide explanation and without affecting your relationship with the researchers. You will not receive any direct benefit for participating in this research. The research will provide a more plausible understanding of cybercrimes and cybersecurity education, thereby contributing to the areas of internal and external cybersecurity measures.

If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints, or think that the data collection for research purposes has hurt you, please contact the security researchers at:

querylabs@mail.rit.edu