Analyzing the iOS Local Network Permission from a Technical and User Perspective - Artifacts

We analyzed the local network permission from a technical and user perspective.

• To study the permission implementation, we designed a test app.
• To find out how prevalent local network access is, we dynamically analyzed apps on Android and iOS.
• We extracted and studied the concepts present in the messages shown alongside the permission.
• We performed a user study to analyze users' understanding of the local network and common misconceptions.

For more details, see our paper.

Folder Structure

• RQ1: Test app
• RQ2: Android app interaction
• RQ2: iOS app interaction
• RQ2: Traffic evaluation
• RQ3: Rationale classification
• RQ4: User study evaluation scripts

How to cite:

@inproceedings{2025:local_network,
    title     = {{Analyzing the iOS Local Network Permission from a Technical and User Perspective}},
    author    = {Schmidt, David and Ponticello, Alexander and Steinböck, Magdalena and Krombholz, Katharina and Lindorfer, Martina},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S\&P)},
    doi       = {10.1109/SP61157.2025.00045},
    year      = {2025},
}

Contacts

• David Schmidt:
  • email: [email protected]
  • twitter: @dschm1dt
  • Topics:
    • Test app
    • Dynamic analysis
    • Rationale extraction
• Alexander Ponticello:
  • email: [email protected]
  • twitter: @alip0nti
  • Topics:
    • Rationale classification
    • User study
• Magdalena Steinböck
  • email: [email protected]
  • GitHub: @magdasteinb
  • Topics:
    • Dataset
    • Dynamic analysis - iOS
• Katharina Krombholz
  • email: [email protected]
• Martina Lindorfer
  • email: [email protected]