Can your phone reveal your secrets?
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January 29, 2013 |
Next time I want to use a PIN to protect my phone I may need to think twice.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have hacked phone PINs by using data stored in their motion sensors. Usually this kind of information is used in games to guide something on screen such as a car or ball.
I think we need to lock our phones another way… maybe using our voices?
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After only five guesses the software correctly identified PINs 43% of the time.
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