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Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope

Posted by Unknown on from the phone-can-be-snooped-on-by-everything dept.

stephendavion (2872091) writes Researchers will demonstrate the process used to spy on smartphones using gyroscopes at Usenix Security event on August 22, 2014. Researchers from Stanford and a defense research group at Rafael will demonstrate a way to spy on smartphones using gyroscopes at Usenix Security event on August 22, 2014. According to the "Gyrophone: Recognizing Speech From Gyroscope Signals" study, the gyroscopes integrated into smartphones were sensitive enough to enable some sound waves to be picked up, transforming them into crude microphones.

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  1. I give up... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we just succumb to the inevitable and work on building a list of the parts of a smartphone that can't be used to spy on you?

    I'm thinking 'maybe the battery door'. Any other suggestions?

    1. Re:I give up... by plover · · Score: 3, Funny

      Apple fixed that problem. The iPhone has no battery door, so it can't be removed in case you don't want the phone to spy on you.

      --
      John
    2. Re:I give up... by nxtr · · Score: 3, Funny

      The vibrations of your voice cause voltage fluctuations in the battery, and can be reconstruct the image of the suspect from the reflection in the eye of the person across the street.

  2. Hiding the phone... by khr · · Score: 3, Funny

    the gyroscopes integrated into smartphones were sensitive enough to enable some sound waves to be picked up, transforming them into crude microphones

    Yeah, that's why I always stick my phone inside an empty potato chip bag when I'm talking to someone...