PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android

Private browsing mode is a privacy feature adopted by many modern computer browsers. With the increased use of mobile devices and escalating privacy concerns for mobile users, browser applications on mobile devices have also started incorporating private browsing mode. Even so, the use of private br...

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Main Authors: SU MON KYWE, LANDIS, Christopher, PEI, Yutong, SATTERFIELD, Justin, TIAN, Yuan, TAGUE, Patrick
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-44662017-02-20T03:27:48Z PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android SU MON KYWE, LANDIS, Christopher PEI, Yutong SATTERFIELD, Justin TIAN, Yuan TAGUE, Patrick Private browsing mode is a privacy feature adopted by many modern computer browsers. With the increased use of mobile devices and escalating privacy concerns for mobile users, browser applications on mobile devices have also started incorporating private browsing mode. Even so, the use of private browsing mode is limited to the browser applications and cannot be applied directly on other third-party mobile applications. In this paper, we propose PrivateDroid, which provides a private browsing mode for third-party applications on the Android platform. First, we discuss three possible approaches of implementing mobile private browsing mode: code instrumentation, an extra sandbox, and a Linux container approach. Then, we implement PrivateDroid, which creates a new sandbox for every application in private mode and destroys the sandbox once the application is closed. After that, we evaluate usability, efficiency and security of the system with 25 popular Android applications. Our design considerations, implementation details, evaluation results, and challenges lay a foundation of private browsing mode on mobile platforms. 2014-09-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3465 info:doi/10.1109/TrustCom.2014.8 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4466/viewcontent/C119___PrivateDroid_Private_Browsing_Mode_for_Android__TRUSTCOM14_.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Mobile Privacy Private Browsing Mode Information Security
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
collection InK@SMU
language English
topic Mobile Privacy
Private Browsing Mode
Information Security
spellingShingle Mobile Privacy
Private Browsing Mode
Information Security
SU MON KYWE,
LANDIS, Christopher
PEI, Yutong
SATTERFIELD, Justin
TIAN, Yuan
TAGUE, Patrick
PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android
description Private browsing mode is a privacy feature adopted by many modern computer browsers. With the increased use of mobile devices and escalating privacy concerns for mobile users, browser applications on mobile devices have also started incorporating private browsing mode. Even so, the use of private browsing mode is limited to the browser applications and cannot be applied directly on other third-party mobile applications. In this paper, we propose PrivateDroid, which provides a private browsing mode for third-party applications on the Android platform. First, we discuss three possible approaches of implementing mobile private browsing mode: code instrumentation, an extra sandbox, and a Linux container approach. Then, we implement PrivateDroid, which creates a new sandbox for every application in private mode and destroys the sandbox once the application is closed. After that, we evaluate usability, efficiency and security of the system with 25 popular Android applications. Our design considerations, implementation details, evaluation results, and challenges lay a foundation of private browsing mode on mobile platforms.
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author SU MON KYWE,
LANDIS, Christopher
PEI, Yutong
SATTERFIELD, Justin
TIAN, Yuan
TAGUE, Patrick
author_facet SU MON KYWE,
LANDIS, Christopher
PEI, Yutong
SATTERFIELD, Justin
TIAN, Yuan
TAGUE, Patrick
author_sort SU MON KYWE,
title PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android
title_short PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android
title_full PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android
title_fullStr PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android
title_full_unstemmed PrivateDroid: Private Browsing Mode for Android
title_sort privatedroid: private browsing mode for android
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2014
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3465
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4466/viewcontent/C119___PrivateDroid_Private_Browsing_Mode_for_Android__TRUSTCOM14_.pdf
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