http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2211108/Could-phones-camera-secretly-taking-pictures-right-Hackers-use-lens-steal-private-data--build-3D-model-home.html
By Eddie Wrenn
Daily Mail
1 October 2012
A new app can 'virtually steal' from your home - by turning on your
phone's camera and beaming images back to thieves.
The software can even build up a 3D model of your home, from which the
hackers can inspect your rooms, potentially gleaning information about
valuables in your home, calendar entries as well as spying on you.
The app was created by US military experts at Naval Surface Warfare
Center in Crane, Indiana, to show how cybercriminals could operate in
the future.
The PlaiceRaider creators even demonstrated how they could read the
numbers of a cheque book when they tested the Android software on 20
volunteers.
As long as the app could be installed on the users phone, it can
instantly begin beaming back images from the phone when it senses the
right conditions, and software on the other end can then re-construct
maps of the visited room.
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