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Re:The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on ... by sjtrny on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:29PM (#8180187)
65% accuracy on a limited character set hardly seems worth it at this point.
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Re:The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on ... by ademarre on Thursday August 14, 2014 @07:58PM (#8180429)
"Attacks always get better; they never get worse." – The NSA[1]

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4270#section-6

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Re:The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on ... by m4x on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:37PM (#8180205)
Maybe not at this point, but if they spent some time writing better filtering and speech recognition algorithms it might be able to achieve a much higher accuracy.

Since it's currently so easy to get sensor data on android phones there's a fairly strong incentive for people interested in eavesdropping to do so.

It's pretty cool, anyway

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