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Delaying tactics are often useful when you don’t trust someone, or perhaps don’t trust them yet. So they are useful for cybersystems when they are suspicious of the circumstances. Bureaucracies often do it, either deliberately or inadvertently (Wilson 2000). Often deception is involved in delaying because, for the delay to be most effective, the delayer should not tell the delayee why, but either avoid or evade the question if asked. Delaying works well with cybersystems because unexplained delays occur naturally from time to time when, for instance, network connections go down and a cybersystem is waiting for them, or when a cybersystem decides to do occasional housekeeping tasks.
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Rowe, N.C., Rrushi, J. (2016). Delays. In: Introduction to Cyberdeception. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41187-3_6
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