Smartphone Security 'Taint' What It Used to Be.

The article discusses several aspects of smartphone security as of March 2014, focusing on information flow, efforts to protect Global Positioning System (GPS) location information, and policies regarding various mobile device operating systems such as iOS and Android. According to the article, the...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 98 - 99
Autor principal:	Wallach, Dan
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2014
Materias:	Smartphones Android (Operating system) Mobile apps Global Positioning System iOS (Operating system) Google Inc. Mobile operating systems Security systems
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Sumario:	The article discusses several aspects of smartphone security as of March 2014, focusing on information flow, efforts to protect Global Positioning System (GPS) location information, and policies regarding various mobile device operating systems such as iOS and Android. According to the article, the TaintDroid project takes a running taint tracking approach toward analyzing mobile device applications (apps) which run on the Android operating system. Internet company Google Inc. is examined.