Storage and retrieval mechanisms in mobile spam blocking applications

Title

Storage and retrieval mechanisms in mobile spam blocking applications

 Author

de Jong, Victor (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Contributor

Zhauniarovich, Y. (mentor)
Zarras, A. (mentor) ORCID 0000-0002-8480-6989
Houben, G.J.P.M. (graduation committee) ORCID 0000-0001-6827-9739

 Degree granting institution

Delft University of Technology

 Programme

Computer Science and Engineering

 Project

CSE3000 Research Project

 Date

2022-06-23

 Abstract

Applications on Android phones which block spam calls could be argued a necessity for people unfortunate enough to have their number on spam lists. Third-party applications provide exten- sive, up-to-date blocklists to screen incoming calls. This paper analyses and describes how these types of applications store and access their data. First we analyse which applications keep their data offline on disk, then we take a look at applications which use the internet to query an in- coming phone call. We found four applications use a combination of both, two applications using exclusively online resources and four applications using offline resources only.

 Subject

Android
Reverse engineering
spam call analysis

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Student theses

 Document type

bachelor thesis

 Rights

© 2022 Victor de Jong
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