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Mobile-App Addiction: Threat to Security?

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Author(s)

George Hurlburt, Jeff Voas, Keith Miller

Abstract

Giving individuals this kind of information processing power, along with unprecedented connectivity, might be the single most impressive technical achievement of the 21st century. Nobody knows what the full impact of this transformation will be, but it's clear that our embrace of, and reliance on, cheap and easily accessible information presents unprecedented security implications - the enormity of which we have yet to grasp.
Citation
IT Professional (IEEE)
Volume
13
Issue
6
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2011.104
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Keywords

commodity computing, information technology, mobile apps, security
Information technology and Cybersecurity and privacy

Citation

Hurlburt, G. , Voas, J. and Miller, K. (2011), Mobile-App Addiction: Threat to Security?, IT Professional (IEEE), [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2011.104, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=907101 (Accessed October 7, 2025)

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Created October 31, 2011, Updated October 12, 2021
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