Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
March 2014
From Communications of the ACM
TaintDroid: An Information Flow Tracking System For Real-Time Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones
Today's smartphone operating systems frequently fail to provide users with adequate control over and visibility into how third-party applications use their privacy-sensitive data. We address these shortcomings with TaintDroid…
From Communications of the ACM
Technical Perspective: Smartphone Security 'Taint' What It Used to Be
The TaintDroid project takes a runtime taint tracking approach toward analyzing Android apps.