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Quantifying the Effects of Permission Removal from Android Applications
By:Kristen M. Kennedy
Published on 2013 by

With the growing popularity of Android smart phones, ensuring the security of sensitive user information has become increasingly important. A recent study found that approximately 26% of Android applications in Google Play can access personal data, such ascontacts and email, while 42% can access GPS location data [9]. While Android is known for providing user versatility, it falls short when it comes to controlling application permissions. Currently, the options provided are to either 1) give an application every permission it requests or 2) not install it. While researchers have proposed approaches for allowing users to modify the permissions granted to applications, it is unclear how removing permissions will affect the behavior of applications. At present, developers expect all requested permissions to be granted. This study takes the first step towards quantifying the impact of enabling users to statically remove permissions on Android applications post-installation. An automated testing system, Pyandrazzi, was developed and customized for evaluating the effect of removing individual permissions from applications. Using Pyandrazzi, the impact of removing seven common permissions was evaluated using sets of randomly selected applications that requestthem. It was determined that approximately 8% of the 700 applications tested crash after a permission is removed and that the removal of certain permissions is handled more gracefully than others. The results of this study will aid users in making more informed decisions when removing permissions and assist developers in making their applications more robust to permission revocation.

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