| A team of researchers from Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science has announced that they've found a way to capture keyboard information through the accelerometer of a nearby iPhone. According to their findings, the technique was accurate 80% of the time. This isn't the first time an iPhone's accelerometer has been used to capture keystrokes, but it is the first time a keyboard has been captured through a neighboring phone.
Instead of directly monitoring keystrokes, like a keylogger installed on a target's computer, this method senses the vibrations of each keystroke via the iPhone's accelerometer. To accurately discern what is being typed, the software compares pairs of keystrokes. It sorts these based on which side of the keyboard the stroke occurred, and how close the keyboard stokes were to each other. |
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