Article 2FXNR Boffins Rickroll smartphone by tickling its accelerometer

Boffins Rickroll smartphone by tickling its accelerometer

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Story ImagePhones blindly trust what their sensors tell them. So they're open to spoofing. Sigh

Smartphone vendors might be learning to mistrust software, but what about the hardware? University of Michigan boffins have put this question to the world by sending unauthorised data to a Samsung turns-out-to-be-not-so-smartphone by buzzing its accelerometer."

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