An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps

著者: Muhammad Ikram, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Suranga Seneviratne, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Vern Paxson - Proceedings of the 2016 Internet Measurement Conference 2016 被引用: 126

Millions of users worldwide resort to mobile VPN clients to either circumvent censorship or to access geo-blocked content, and more generally for privacy and security purposes. In practice, however, users have little if any guarantees about the corresponding security and privacy settings, and perhaps no practical knowledge about the entities accessing their mobile traffic.