{"id":9839,"date":"2018-09-04T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:47","slug":"spying-on-remote-screens-through-the-webcam-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/spying-on-remote-screens-through-the-webcam-mic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spying on remote screens\u2014through the webcam mic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9842\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9842\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-640x240.png\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-640x240.png 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-640x240-200x75.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-640x240-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Examples of audio traces captured using a microphone close to an LCD display with varying &#8220;zebra stripe&#8221; patterns on-screen. (Genkin, Pattani, Schuster, Tromer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ever wonder what the people on the other end of a Hangouts session are really looking at on their screens? With a little help from machine learning, you might be able to take a peek over their shoulders. Based on research published by <strong>Daniel Genkin<\/strong>, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the College of Engineering, all you&#8217;ll need to do is process the audio picked up by their microphones. Genkin is part of an international team of researchers that investigated <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2018\/08\/researchers-find-way-to-spy-on-remote-screens-through-the-webcam-mic\/\">a potential new avenue of remote surveillance<\/a> that they have dubbed\u00a0&#8220;Synesthesia&#8221;: a side-channel attack that can reveal the contents of a remote screen, providing access to potentially sensitive information, based solely on &#8220;content-dependent acoustic leakage from LCD screens.&#8221; Their research was published in August at the CRYPTO 2018 conference in Santa Barbara, CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what the people on the other end of a Hangouts session are really looking at on their screens? With a little help from machine learning, you might be able to take a peek over their shoulders. Based on research published by Daniel Genkin, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the College of Engineering,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/spying-on-remote-screens-through-the-webcam-mic\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[488,121,549],"class_list":["post-9839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-safe-computing","tag-cybersecurity","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",393,260,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400-200x132.png",200,132,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400-300x198.png",300,198,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",393,260,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",393,260,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",393,260,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",393,260,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",393,260,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",393,260,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/close_range_phone_withsetup-600x400.png",378,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Ever wonder what the people on the other end of a Hangouts session are really looking at on their screens? 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