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Document type
Conference papers


Title
Snooping on Mobile Phones: Prevalence and Trends

Participants in the publication
Diogo Marques (Author)
Ildar Muslukhov (Author)
Tiago Guerreiro (Author)
Dep. Informática
 LASIGE
 Luís Carriço (Author)
Dep. Informática
 LASIGE
 Konstantin Beznosov (Author)

Summary
Personal mobile devices keep private information which people other than the owner may try to access. Thus far, it has been unclear how common it is for people to snoop on one another's devices. Through an anonymity-preserving survey experiment, we quantify the pervasiveness of snooping attacks, defined as "looking through someone else's phone without their permission." We estimated the 1-year prevalence to be 31% in an online participant pool. Weighted to the U.S. population, the data indicates that 1 in 5 adults snooped on at least one other person's phone, just in the year before the survey was conducted. We found snooping attacks to be especially prevalent among young people, and among those who are themselves smartphone users. In a follow-up study, we found that, among smartphone users, depth of adoption, like age, also predicts the probability of engaging in snooping attacks. In particular, the more people use their devices for personal purposes, the more likely they are to snoop on others, possibly because they become aware of the sensitive information that is kept, and how to access it. These findings suggest that, all else remaining equal, the prevalence of snooping attacks may grow, as more people adopt smartphones, and motivate further effort into improving defenses.

Date of Publication
2016

Event
Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’16)

Publication Identifiers
ISBN - 9781931971317

Address
Denver, CO, USA

Publisher
Usenix

Starting page
159
Last page
174

Document Identifiers
ISBN - 978-1-931971-31-7
URL - https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2016/technical-sessions/presentation/marques
URL - https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3235909

Awards
Distinguished paper award

Rankings
CORE B (2014, 2017, 2018) -
Google Metrics (2019) - 28


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APA
Diogo Marques, Ildar Muslukhov, Tiago Guerreiro, Luís Carriço, Konstantin Beznosov , (2016). Snooping on Mobile Phones: Prevalence and Trends. Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’16), 159-174

IEEE
Diogo Marques, Ildar Muslukhov, Tiago Guerreiro, Luís Carriço, Konstantin Beznosov , "Snooping on Mobile Phones: Prevalence and Trends" in Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’16), Denver, CO, USA, 2016, pp. 159-174 , doi:

BIBTEX
@InProceedings{35839, author = {Diogo Marques and Ildar Muslukhov and Tiago Guerreiro and Luís Carriço and Konstantin Beznosov }, title = {Snooping on Mobile Phones: Prevalence and Trends}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’16)}, year = 2016, pages = {159-174 }, address = {Denver, CO, USA}, publisher = {Usenix} }