Shocker: Touchscreen smudge may give away your Android password pattern

Fast food connoisseurs should pay special attention here — consistent with a up to date paper by the University of Pennsylvania, Android users are inadvertently leaving their nine-dot lock patterns inside the open, courtesy of their fingers’ oily smear on the screen. Specifically, the study on potential ” smudge attacks” found that partial or complete patterns may well be easily retrieved — in spite of added noise on the display or after incidental clothing contact — as a result of various lighting and camera orientation settings for the smear analysis. Should we be surprised? No. But should our phones be getting Froyo sooner for the extra PIN and QWERTY password options? Hell yeah.

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