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May 25, 2015 10:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3rYPUf9rE10/hackers-can-track-subway-riders-movements-by-smartphone-accelerometer
Hackers Can Track Subway Riders' Movements By Smartphone Accelerometer
Patrick O'Neill writes: Tens of millions of daily subway riders around the world can be tracked through their smartphones by a new attack, according to research from China's Nanjing University. The new attack even works underground and doesn't utilize GPS or cell networks. Instead, the attacker steals data from a phone's accelerometer. Because each subway in the world has a unique movement fingerprint, the phone's motion sensor can give away a person's daily movements with up to 92% accuracy.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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