New ways your smartwatch (and phone) may be spying on you
Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - 08:31
in Mathematics & Economics
A computer science Masters student Tony Beltramelli at the IT University of Copenhagen has demonstrated that software running on a smartwatch could be used to record a user's passwords and PINs. He managed this by using the smartwatch's motion sensors and analysing the patterns of data from the sensors when tapping a keypad to enter a PIN.