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Characterizing Android permissions and analyzing their privacy-intrusion
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Characterizing Android permissions and analyzing their privacy-intrusion
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Kirty Prabhakar
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1990-
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Kirty Prabhakar Vedula
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Lindqvist
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Janne
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Janne Lindqvist
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Wade
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Wade Trappe
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co-chair
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Zhang
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Yanyong
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Yanyong Zhang
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co-chair
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2014
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2014-05
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eng
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Several studies have examined Android apps’ use of permissions from a security point-of-view. However, privacy has been an increasing concern with the increasing number of apps and most users are still not aware of several privacy-intruding permissions. This research investigates a dataset of permissions for over 610,000 apps existing on the Google Play Store on how they can impact users of smartphones. The objective is to better understand the patterns in permissions from a users’ perspective. We report findings on thousands of reputed apps using users’ coarse or exact location. About 70% of such apps were free and the major categories were Entertainment and Games. We observe more than 90% positive correlation between the ratings and such permissions. We also analyze device-intrusion where few apps ask for permissions to let the app run in the background, tweak with hardware and deplete energy using rich-media ads. For example, several apps in News & Magazines category were found to consume energy for downloading even when the device is in sleep mode. More than 20,000 free apps were found to receive packet data anonymously. The thesis concludes with discussion on implications obtained by employing k-modes algorithm to cluster dangerous and safe apps
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Android apps
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ix, 42 p. : ill.
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Kirty Prabhakar Vedula
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G1 (Smartphone)--Security measures
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Mobile apps--Security measures
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3WS8RJD
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Kirty Prabhakar
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2014-04-10 10:42:42
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Kirty Prabhakar Vedula
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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