Security Elements in Distributed Mobile Architectures

Authors

  • Vlad Petre The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Keywords:

Android, social network, geolocation, real time, security, audit, mobile distributed architecture

Abstract

The mobile phones have emerged in order to overcome the basic need of human beings for being in contact one with each other. In time, the functionalities of such devices have evolved. And so, the users have started to use more and more online social services like Facebook™, Twitter™ or Foursquare™, in order to keep in touch more easily. Unfortunately, the current information exchange models come with a high risk when it comes to sensitive areas like keeping the users’ data private and protecting the intimacy of the users. The purpose of this paper is to make an audit of such a mobile distributed architecture – a real time location based mobile social network that aims at helping its users to remain in permanent contact with their beloved ones.

Author Biography

Vlad Petre, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

IT&C Security Master Program

Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics

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Published

2014-03-30

How to Cite

Petre, V. (2014). Security Elements in Distributed Mobile Architectures. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 6(1), 24-29. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Security_Elements_in_Distributed_Mobile_Architectures

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014): Mobile, Web and Security

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