Those sensors enable everything from motion-based games like DoodleJump to cameras' image stabilization to the phones' displays toggling between vertical and horizontal orientations. In a presentation at the Usenix security conference next week, researchers from Stanford University and Israel's defense research group Rafael plan to present a technique for using a smartphone to surreptitiously eavesdrop on conversations in a room-not with a gadget's microphone, but with its gyroscopes, the sensors designed measure the phone's orientation. But researchers have found there's another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. ![]() ![]() In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device's microphone.
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