[Ssc-dev] Fwd: PlaceRaider Android malware spies through smartphone camera

[Bryan Nunez]

Interesting idea on using sensors and camera phone image to build a 3d
model of your environment...  if you can get past the malware aversion.

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From: MJ Moneymaker <marianna at witness.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Subject: PlaceRaider Android malware spies through smartphone camera
To: WITNESS Staff <staff at witness.org>, WITNESS Interns <interns at witness.org>


PlaceRaider is an experimental Android trojan developed by Indiana
University and the U.S. Navy and it’s a new variant of malware under
virtual threats that exploits a smartphone’s camera by capturing visuals.
http://www.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-PDAs/PlaceRaider-Android-malware-spies-through-smartphone-camera_10940.html

This is how SPAWAR and the military work. They partner with universities to
get grants to create applications, hardware, databases, etc and be able to
test w/ less stringent rules.

Might be a way that we could get funding for our apps is to look for
university and government rfps.

Cheers,
Mari.


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