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An analysis of tracking settings in blackberry 10 and windows phone 8 smartphones
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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Y Rahulamathavan, Veelasha Moonsamy, Lynn BattenLynn Batten, S Shunliang, M RajarajanThe use of tracking settings in smartphones facilitates the provision of tailored services to users by allowing service providers access to unique identifiers stored on the smartphones. In this paper, we investigate the 'tracking off' settings on the Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8 platforms. To determine if they work as claimed, we set up a test bed suitable for both operating systems to capture traffic between the smartphone and external servers. We dynamically execute a set of similar Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone 8 applications, downloaded from their respective official markets. Our results indicate that even if users turn off tracking settings in their smartphones, some applications leak unique identifiers without their knowledge. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
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Title of book
Information security and privacyVolume
8544Series
Lecture notes in computer scienceChapter number
29Pagination
430 - 437Publisher
Springer-VerlagPlace of publication
Berlin, GermanyPublisher DOI
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0302-9743eISSN
1611-3349ISBN-13
9783319083438Language
engNotes
19th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2014 Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 7–9, 2014 ProceedingsPublication classification
B Book chapter; B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2014, Springer-VerlagExtent
32Editor/Contributor(s)
W Susilo, Y MuUsage metrics
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