Accelerometer
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We wanted everyone to walk at least 7,000 steps, and we measured their step count with the
accelerometer
on their cell phone.
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Every security expert wants to hack a smartphone, and we tend to look at the USB port, the GPS for tracking, the camera, the microphone, but no one up till this point had looked at the
accelerometer.
The
accelerometer
is the thing that determines the vertical orientation of the smartphone.
They put a smartphone next to a keyboard, and they had people type, and then their goal was to use the vibrations that were created by typing to measure the change in the
accelerometer
reading to determine what the person had been typing.
Now, when they tried this on an iPhone 3GS, this is a graph of the perturbations that were created by the typing, and you can see that it's very difficult to tell when somebody was typing or what they were typing, but the iPhone 4 greatly improved the accelerometer, and so the same measurement produced this graph.
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