Proof-of-Concept Android Trojan Uses Motion Sensors To Steal Passwords

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TapLogger, a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android developed by resarchers at Pennsylvania State University and IBM, uses infrormation from the phone's motion sensor to deduce what keys the user has tapped (PDF), thus revealing otherwise-hidden information such as passwords and PINs.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/04/2...teal-passwords