The New York Times recently released an article called It’s Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show, which highlights CCC Council Member Kevin Fu’s work on embedded computer systems. Kevin and his team at the University of Michigan and collaborators at the University of South Carolina have found a vulnerability that allows them to take control of devices through the tiny accelerometers that are standard components in consumer products like smartphones, fitness monitors and even automobiles. Accelerometers, which measure acceleration, are used for navigating, determining the orientation of a tablet computer, and measuring distance traveled in devices such as Fitbits. The research team used precisely tuned acoustic […]
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Posts Tagged ‘Accelerometers’
