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Beware of the tell-tale smudge

University of Pennsylvania researchers say they can take a picture of the screen of a touch screen phone, enhance the contrast on the smudge marks,…

University of Pennsylvania researchers say they can take a picture of the screen of a touch screen phone, enhance the contrast on the smudge marks, and detect the password 92% of the time. Their advice: clean your phone. Which is kind of good advice anyway.

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