Title :
The design and implementation of invisible eavesdropping protection application
Author :
Zhao Jia ; Han Ziye ; Zhang Hanbing ; Liu Rui
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
“Invisible eavesdropping” in this paper means that some applications call the mobile phone´s microphone module and gather the user´s voice and transmit information illegally when the screen is locked or the users are playing games and completely unaware of the situation. Based on idea of “real-time monitoring” and “active protection”, a scheme was proposed in this paper using the access authority of mobile phone´s microphone, network access, user trust and etc. This scheme implements the function of alarm and threat position in the open source Android mobile platform. Compared with the domestic and foreign products, the system has the following specific characteristics: (1) it can boot automatically and scan on the backstage without multiple settings after it installed and set up for the first time; (2) compared with some of the existing protection software, when the invisible eavesdropping happened, this application will alarm the users, but not just to protect the files in the phone; (3) the application can navigate to the specific risk of eavesdropping applications; (4) it need not the authority of “root” or to modify the kernel.
Keywords :
authorisation; microphones; real-time systems; smart phones; trusted computing; access authority; active protection; domestic product; foreign product; invisible eavesdropping protection application; mobile phone microphone module; network access; open source Android mobile platform; protection software; real-time monitoring; threat position; user trust; Microphones; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Smart phones; Software; Virtual machining; Android; access control; invisible eavesdropping;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing (ICSP), 2014 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2188-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICOSP.2014.7015423