Persistent vs Service IDs in Android: Session Fingerprinting from Apps

Efthimios Alepis; Constantinos Patsakis

Mobile Networks and Management. 9th International Conference, MONAMI 2017, Melbourne, Australia, December 13-15, 2017, Proceedings

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Persistent vs Service IDs in Android: Session Fingerprinting from Apps

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    title={Persistent vs Service IDs in Android: Session Fingerprinting from Apps},
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    proceedings_a={MONAMI},
    year={2018},
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Efthimios Alepis
Constantinos Patsakis
Year: 2018
Persistent vs Service IDs in Android: Session Fingerprinting from Apps
MONAMI
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90775-8_2

Efthimios Alepis¹^,*, Constantinos Patsakis¹

1: University of Piraeus

*Contact email: talepis@unipi.gr

Abstract

Android has conquered the mobile market, reaching a market share above 85%. The post Lollipop versions have introduced radical changes in the platform, significantly improving the provided security and privacy of the users. Nonetheless, the platform offers several features that can be exploited to fingerprint users. Of specific interest are the fingerprinting capabilities which do not request any dangerous permission from the user, therefore they can be silently shipped with any application without the user being able to trace them, let alone blocking them. Having Android AOSP as our baseline we discuss various such methods and their applicability.

Published: 2018-05-18
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90775-8_2