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Spying On Printers Via The Sound They Make?!?!?

At Saarland university, students and researchers now say they can, with up to 70% accuracy, detect what a printer is printing only based on the sounds that they make while they print. That’s scary. Although it took a while because they had to match word in the dictionary to words that could be printed, they say that in their demo (with an anonymous patients), they were able to tell what perscription was being printed at a doctor’s office.

[Via Lifehacker on Google Blogscoped]


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