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Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Social Networks

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Mobile devices are becoming cheaper and resourceful, with more processing power and storage, multiple network interfaces, GPS and a variety of physical sensors, allowing the execution of sophisticated context-aware applications. Through the use of Mobile Social Networks (MSN), users may access, publish and share content generated by them at anytime and anywhere, enhancing their social interactions. MSN applications are characterized by the integration of context information to the social network content, enriching the existing applications and providing new services. On the other hand, the extensive use of context information leads to new privacy and security challenges, which is the scope of this chapter, which aims to describe the main concepts, research challenges and solutions for this area.

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    http://m.facebook.com/.

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    https://mobile.twitter.com/.

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    http://instagr.am/.

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    https://www.google.com/latitude/.

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    https://foursquare.com/.

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    A Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person (human being), not a machine.

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    http://www.flickr.com/.

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    Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol—http://xmpp.org/.

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    http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/.

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    http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/smack/.

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    http://www.omg.org.

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The authors would like to thank FAPEMA (State of Maranhão Research Agency) for the support of this work, grant APP-00932/10, and Jesseildo Gonçalves for his review and suggestions specially concerning the text describing the middleware support for MSNs.

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