Shock! Smartphone sensor can reveal your PIN

Even if some people may have stolen your smartphone, if they do not know that your PIN may not be too good for them. Now researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have created a system that can correctly guess the phone's PIN based on the information provided by the sensor.

Under Dr. Shivam Bhasin's leadership, the research team "trained" the system by letting three people randomly enter 70 four-digit PINs on an Android smartphone. A special application is installed on each cell phone to collect data from accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, proximity sensors, barometers, and ambient light sensors.

The researchers then used deep learning algorithms to analyze the data and match specific sensor readings with specific numbers on the on-screen keyboard. Bhasin explained: “When you hold your phone and enter your PIN, the way the phone moves is very different when you press 1, 5 or 9. Similarly, pressing 1 with your right thumb will be more than pressing 9 Block more light."

When the system guesses a four-digit PIN based on the sensor's response, when unlocking a phone using one of the 50 most used PINs, the accuracy rate is 99.5% (no more than three attempts).

According to Bhasin, it is conceivable that people may unknowingly use technology to download malware onto mobile phones. After accessing the phone's sensor and obtaining the user's PIN, the program transmits the information to the person who can unlock the phone.

To prevent this from happening, he suggested that the mobile operating system restrict access to the mobile sensor so that users can only grant permissions to trusted applications.

A paper on this research was recently published in the journal "CryptologyePrintArchive".

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