Gyroscopes in Android phones can be turned into always-on microphones

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Tue Aug 19 05:37:35 PDT 2014


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:02:55PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 8/19/14, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:33:25PM -0300, Gutem wrote:
> >> FYI:
> >> http://www.geek.com/android/gyroscopes-in-android-phones-can-be-turned-into-always-on-microphones-1602140/
> >
> > Mobile handsets are intrinsically untrusted. You can put up the
> > baseband spyware into a MiFi, and only use WLAN from a trusted,
> > blobless device, only with end to end encryption.
> >
> > Of course this means you have to tear down your neural-sourced
> > MiFi puck first, to see what you can see.
> >
> > In unrelated vein, I've recently read that it was the spooks
> > that killed the digital pulse radio star, by limiting licensend
> > power to toy levels. Apparently they were very unhappy with a
> > radio that's hard to look for.
> 
> Link please?

Caveat, speculation:

http://www.cringely.com/2014/05/15/nsa-help-kill-uwb/



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