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Aug. 26th, 2014 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingEavesdropping through a smartphone gyroscope.
"Since iOS and Android require no special permissions to access the gyro, our results show that apps and active web content that cannot access the microphone can nevertheless eavesdrop on speech in the vicinity of the phone."
"Since iOS and Android require no special permissions to access the gyro, our results show that apps and active web content that cannot access the microphone can nevertheless eavesdrop on speech in the vicinity of the phone."
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Date: 2014-08-26 06:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-08-26 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-08-26 07:40 pm (UTC)crypto.stanford.edu uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.
(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)
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Date: 2014-08-26 07:44 pm (UTC)Same browser and OS. I checked a stock install of Chrome, too: same cert, same validity.
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Date: 2014-08-26 07:57 pm (UTC)And, it's pretty scary that this is possible, and that the vendors are unlikely to do much to prevent it.
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Date: 2014-08-26 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-08-26 08:34 pm (UTC)