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As bad children know, excuses are an excellent way to avoid doing something you do not want to do (Snyder et al. 1983). Excuses are also important for bureaucracies (Wilson 2000), and large software systems are like bureaucracies with many of the same problems. Cybersystems under attack are being asked to do things that they should not want to do, so excuses can be an excellent defensive tactic. Cybersystems already use plenty of excuses in the form of error messages during normal operations. (Carofiglio et al. 2001) provides a more general approach to verbal deception planning that includes excuses.
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Rowe, N.C., Rrushi, J. (2016). False Excuses. In: Introduction to Cyberdeception. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41187-3_9
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