Navy Spyware Maps Your Home From Smartphone Camera

The U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center has developed a new piece of spyware to map your own house from an infected smartphone via its camera. It utilizes the GPS, accelerometers  and other phone hardware to visually map out and spatially piece together the inside layout of  your own home says The Washington Times:

The malware, dubbed “PlaceRaider,” “allows remote hackers to reconstruct rich, three-dimensional models of the smartphone owner’s personal indoor spaces through completely opportunistic use of the camera,” the researchers said in a study published last week.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/2/new-software-uses-smartphone-camera-spying



Ahhh....the new iPhone 5 panoramic camera should be most useful to the Navy!  -AK