(sp)iPhone: Decoding vibrations from nearby keyboards using mobile phone accelerometers

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 551-562

  Marquardt, Philip ^a   Verma, Arunabh ^b   Carter, Henry ^b   Traynor, Patrick ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Information leakage; Mobile phones

Indexed keywords

GAINING ACCESS; GPS RECEIVERS; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; NYQUIST RATE; RECOVERY RATE; THREE AXIS ACCELEROMETERS;

CAMERAS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RECOVERY; SECURITY OF DATA; SENSORS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 80755143996     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046707.2046771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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