My Patient Wants to Kill Me

Sima Help ! My birthday reminder wants to brick my phone

In recent years, Android has gained a lot of popularity with smartphone users, making it a target platform for malware. To protect the user, Android uses a permission system which limits an application’s access to private data. However, the users have no fine-grained control over which permissions are granted to the application. In order to mitigate this problem, this project introduces a novel...

My Agent Wants to Talk to Your Service

Web services are tailored for the support of dynamic business-tobusiness interactions. As web service technology evolves, we anticipate that the question of how to use customer information to personalize the relationship between web services and their customers will move beyond the current focus on a service’s interactions with the human consumer, and on to the challenge of how a customer can a...

ME and My Shadow

Everyone Exposed to Methyleugenol Whether you intend to or not, chances are you will consume approximately 6 micro-grams of methyleugenol (ME) today, according to a report in this month's issue by Dana B. Barr and colleagues of a study designed to measure ME in human blood _ serum [EHP 108:323-328]. ME is a compound that occurs naturally in a variety of spices and herbs, including clove oil, nu...

See me through my eyes

What my cancer taught me.