Could your phone be secretly taking pictures right now? How hackers could hijack your camera to spy on you (and even read your chequebook)

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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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