Moving Fast with Software Verification - Calcagno et al. 2015 This is a story of transporting ideas from recent theoretical research in reasoning about programs into the fast-moving engineering culture of Facebook. The context is that most of the authors landed at Facebook in September of 2013, when we brought the INFER static analyser with … Continue reading Moving Fast with Software Verification
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Information-Flow Analysis of Android Applications in DroidSafe
Information-Flow Analysis of Android Applications in DroidSafe - Gordon et al. 2015 This is the first of three papers we'll be looking at this week from the NDSS'15 conference that took place earlier this month. DroidSafe is a tool that looks for potential leaks of sensitive information in Android applications. And it works incredibly well! … Continue reading Information-Flow Analysis of Android Applications in DroidSafe
SwiftCloud: Fault-tolerant geo-replication integrated all the way to the client
SwiftCloud: Fault-tolerant geo-replication integrated all the way to the client machine - Zawirski et al. 2013 Data is stored in the cloud, presentation is on mobile devices, and application processing is increasingly split between the two. As mobile devices get more and more capable, we would like to exploit more and more of that capability. … Continue reading SwiftCloud: Fault-tolerant geo-replication integrated all the way to the client