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Clever Vibrational Hack Turns iPhone into spiPhone

Submitted by fm56 on Thu, 2011-10-20 11:02

The danger of smartphone accelerometers as a cyber-attack vector, says Patrick Traynor (Computer Science), is that applications typically can gain access to a phone's accelerometer without user approval. Source: Science a Go Go

Location: 
Atlanta, GA
Dateline: 
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Release: 
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 10:08
Expire: 
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 10:08
 

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