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Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now
An anonymous reader writes: Two French researchers have discovered a way to use the Siri and Google Now voice assistant software to relay malicious commands to smartphones without the user's consent or knowledge. This method relies on a special hardware rig that can send radio waves to smartphones with earphones plugged into them. The radio waves get picked up by the earphone cable, get transformed into electrical signals and then to software commands. The research is accompanied by a YouTube video as well. Note that this attack, as the article explains, so far relies on some bulky dedicated equipment, and on the attacker being close to the system he wants to disrupt.
they can use radiowaves to remotely control and tap into/scan anything, even DRAM, CPU, brain/nerves, USB, keyboard, monitors.
the technique is called interferometry/electronic warfare but also you can do it with off the shelf parts. they call the off the shelf stuff van eck phreaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
More info on the interferometry/electronic warfare kind used by our government from space satellites and over the horizon radar at http://www.drrobertduncan.com/
Info on interferometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Electronic warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Signals Intelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
RADAR MASINT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Welcome to the high tech age hidden by Edward Snowden, only talked about by real whistleblowers like Russ Tice, and Dr. Robert Duncan.