Separating Smartphone advertising from applications
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wallach, Daniel S. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Cox, Alan L. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Zhong, Lin | |
| dc.creator | Shekhar, Shashi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-06T00:09:08Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-06T00:09:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-09-06T00:09:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-09-06T00:09:10Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2012-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-09-05 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2012 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2012-09-06T00:09:10Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | A wide variety of smartphone applications today rely on third-party advertising services, which provide libraries that are linked into the hosting application. This situation is undesirable for both the application author and the advertiser. Advertising libraries require additional permissions, resulting in additional permission requests to users. Likewise, a malicious application could simulate the behavior of the advertising library, forging the user's interaction and effectively stealing money from the advertiser. This thesis describes AdSplit, where we extended Android to allow an application and its advertising to run as separate processes, under separate user-ids, eliminating the need for applications to request permissions on behalf of their advertising libraries. We also leverage mechanisms from QUIRE to allow the remote server to validate the authenticity of client-side behavior. In this thesis, we quantify the degree of permission bloat caused by advertising, with a study of thousands of downloaded apps. AdSplit automatically recompiles apps to extract their ad services, and we measure minimal runtime overhead. We also observe that most ad libraries just embed an HTML widget within and describe how AdSplit can be designed with this in mind to avoid any need for ads to have native code. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Shekhar, Shashi. "Separating Smartphone advertising from applications." (2012) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64642">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64642</a>. | |
| dc.identifier.slug | 123456789/ETD-2012-05-94 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64642 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | |
| dc.subject | Android | |
| dc.subject | Smartphones | |
| dc.subject | Security | |
| dc.title | Separating Smartphone advertising from applications | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | Text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Computer Science | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Engineering | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Rice University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science |