Exploiting the iPad's Glowing Keyboard 127
nonprofiteer writes "Earlier this week, a South African security researcher released shoulderPad, an app that's designed to auto-snoop on iPad users' passwords by watching their touchscreen keyboards. When a user types on an iPad's touchscreen, each key glows blue for a fraction of a second after it's struck, a helpful bit of feedback for any virtual keyboard. ShoulderPad's image recognition algorithms, based on Open CV's open source image recognition software, look for that flash of blue. 'At any distance, if the blue is distinguishable, shoulderPad can detect that keystroke,' says Meer."
Re:It's not even that hard (Score:4, Informative)
Being serious doesn't make it true. Even the iPhone 3G was given the feature quite some time ago.
Re:It's not even that hard (Score:2, Informative)
I never owned an iphone but I was curious.
and WTF, the way to change tones seems to be:
1. jailbreak the thing /system/library/audio/uisounds overwrite the original files with your own file
2. convert your custom tone to AIFF
3. ssh to the phone
4. in
*very* convenient, I still can't believe it