In this meeting, Yang Wang presented to us how some Android permissions work. Additionally, he taught us how the risk of a permission is evaluated (summary: it involves a summation of likelihood of adverse event * impact of such event). For the risk analysis 169 standard permissions will be considered; thus, any user-defined, manufacturer-defined, or obscure permissions cannot be rated. As to how Android permissions are deemed normal or dangerous, it remains unknown to us.
During the rest of the meeting we talked about the particulars of how to proceed with our work: we are downloading the Android 4.0 source code, we will need to recompile the OS, etc.
By next week, Danny and I will post possible user interfaces.
- Eunice.
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