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January 12, 2016 02:00 pm

Smartwatches Can Be Used To Spy On Your Card's PIN Code

An anonymous reader writes: A researcher has developed a smartwatch app that can interpret hand motions and translate the movements to specific keystrokes on 12-keys keypads, as the ones used for ATM PIN cards. The app sends the data to a nearby smartphone, which then relays it to a server, for analysis. The whole AI algorithm on which it's built has a 73% accuracy for touchlogging events, and 59% for keylogging. The entire code is on GitHub, along with his research paper, and a YouTube video.

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