Hackers can use the vibration motor in your phone to eavesdrop on you

2016-06-08T15:05:00-04:00

Hackers may be pickin’ up good vibrations from your phone. All the better to surveil you with, my dear. Researchers at the Electrical and Computer Engineering school of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discovered that the vibration motor in your devices can operate like a microphone, according to the researchers’ paper. That means, if a hacker rewires your vibration motor (which TechCrunch reported could be executed “in a minute or two”), they can listen to what you’re saying.

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Hackers can use the vibration motor in your phone to eavesdrop on you