论文标题
针对移动应用程序的安全与隐私的用户评论的实证研究
An Empirical Study on User Reviews Targeting Mobile Apps' Security & Privacy
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论文摘要
应用市场以应用程序评论的形式提供应用程序开发人员及其最终用户之间的通信渠道，这使用户可以提供有关应用程序的反馈。尽管移动应用程序中的安全性和隐私是最大的问题之一，但尚不清楚人们在评论中有多少意识或讨论它们。 在这项研究中，我们使用Google Play商店中的评论探讨用户的隐私和安全问题。为此，我们通过分析该Android市场的前539个应用程序进行了约220万次评论，进行了一项研究。我们发现，这些评论中有0.5％与用户的安全性和隐私问题有关。我们通过进行动态分析进一步研究了这些应用程序，从而为我们提供了对其实际行为的宝贵见解。根据不同的观点，我们对应用程序进行了分类，并评估了不同因素如何影响用户对应用程序的看法。从结果可以明显看出，应用程序请求的许可数量在此问题中起着主导作用。我们还发现，发送位置可能会影响用户对应用程序的想法。其他因素不会直接影响用户的隐私和安全问题。
Application markets provide a communication channel between app developers and their end-users in form of app reviews, which allow users to provide feedback about the apps. Although security and privacy in mobile apps are one of the biggest issues, it is unclear how much people are aware of these or discuss them in reviews. In this study, we explore the privacy and security concerns of users using reviews in the Google Play Store. For this, we conducted a study by analyzing around 2.2M reviews from the top 539 apps of this Android market. We found that 0.5\% of these reviews are related to the security and privacy concerns of the users. We further investigated these apps by performing dynamic analysis which provided us valuable insights into their actual behaviors. Based on the different perspectives, we categorized the apps and evaluated how the different factors influence the users' perception of the apps. It was evident from the results that the number of permissions that the apps request plays a dominant role in this matter. We also found that sending out the location can affect the users' thoughts about the app. The other factors do not directly affect the privacy and security concerns for the users.
