Short paper: A look at smartphone permission models

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-67

  Au, Kathy Wain Yee ^a   Zhou, Yi Fan ^a   Huang, Zhen ^a   Gill, Phillipa ^a   Lie, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

permissions; smartphone

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; APPLICATION SOFTWARES; INTERACTIVITY; PERMISSIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SANDBOXING; SMART PHONES;

COMPUTER PRIVACY; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SIGNAL ENCODING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80755127060     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046614.2046626     Document Type: Conference Paper

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