Die Forschungsgruppe SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) gehört zum Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren ( AIFB ) des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie (KIT). Die Gruppe wurde 2011 von Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer an der TU Darmstadt gegründet. Die SECUSO Forschungsgruppe unter…
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Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current…
We use our smartphone for private conversations, store our contacts and organise our meetings with it. The access to all this sensitive data is handled with the so-called permissions. It means, for example, that each app that requires the smartphone camera needs to get the corresponding permission first. Many of the…