Spying on Your Computer
The government is spying on us and now we’re spying on each other. Here’s the latest, and it’s a pattern that repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices and coffee shops around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile phones on their desks and begin to work. What if a hacker could use that phone to track what the person was typing on the keyboard just inches away? A research team has discovered how to do exactly that, using a smartphone accelerometer–the internal device that detects when and how the phone is tilted–to sense keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80% accuracy.
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