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As infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick describes in his book The Art of Deception, "the human factor is truly security's weakest link" [18]. Deception has been widely successful when used by hackers for social engineering and by military strategists in kinetic warfare [26]. Deception affects the human's beliefs, decisions, and behaviors. Similarly, as cyber defenders, deception is a powerful tool that should be employed to protect our systems against humans who wish to penetrate, attack, and harm them.
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Ferguson‐Walter et al. (2019) studied this question.