Hackers can now use sound waves to take control of your smartphone

[Kent Sharkey]

Gizmodo[^]:

A team of researchers can use sound waves to control anything from a smartphone (seriously) to a car (theoretically).

To avoid, keep all sounds away from your phone

[jeron1]

Ha, and people laugh at my flip-phone!

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle

[Jagger B]

Time to live in vacuum. Get me that O2 bag!

[Bryian Tan]

:omg: :omg: :omg: That insane!

Bryian Tan

[Mark_Wallace]

Quote:

They also spoofed a Fitbit into counting steps while the device remained perfectly still

WANT! Please hack my phone!

Manufacturers replied:

meh. We'll just add a hundredth of a cent's worth more plastic to our phones.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Nathan Minier]

Not sure that input fuzzing counts as a hack....

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli