Application Change Smartphone Spy So the "enemy" you

WASHINGTON - Smartphone in your hand can be hijacked and used as an accessory for virtual theft. The reason, a new application can be created to map the situation around smartphone that was hijacked.

Reporting from Live Science, Wednesday (03/10/2012), military investigators United States (U.S.) has created a mobile application that create a 3D map of the environment around the smartphone. Applications tersebtu named PlaceRaider.

Researchers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, said PlaceRaider can disguise himself as an ordinary camera application for Android smartphones.

This application is secretly using a camera phone to take new pictures, while he photographed, also collects data from the accelerometer orientation of a mobile phone. Accelerometer is a device that turned the screen.

PlaceRaider can then upload that information to a central computer that combines the best image into a 3D virtual map of one's home or office.

  "We develop and demonstrate a tool that allows an attacker can visualize and navigate in 3D space victims," said an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Robert Templeman.

"This allows them to be quickly discover a region that allegedly contains sensitive or personal information. Then receive targeted and high-resolution photos," he added.

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