Researchers find accelerometers may pose security risk for smartphones
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 10:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—Visiting professor Adam Aviv and a team of colleagues from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, has found that studying the way a smartphone responds to being tapped as a person types in a PIN number, can help someone else guess that PIN number. The security problem came to light as the team was studying data sent by a typical smartphone accelerometer.