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Smudged… But Your Password Isn’t…

by Jago Maniscalchi  //  August 18, 2010  //  News  //  No comments

A really cool bit of research from the University of Pennsylvania has looked at how smudges on your smart phone touch screen can be used to guess your password. So, while this is all research at present, as per usual it will only be a matter of time before it is exploited.

So… along …

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Jago Maniscalchi is a Cyber security consultant, though he tries to avoid the word "Cyber" at all costs. He has spent 15 years working with Information Systems and has experience in website hosting, software engineering, infrastructure management, data analysis and security assessment. Jago lives in London with his family, enough pets to start a small zooalogical society, and a Samsung NaviBot Robotic Vacuum Cleaner. Despite an aptitude for learning computer languages, his repeated attempts to learn Italian have resulted in spectacular failure.

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