Closed Bug 1183100 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Using 200hz the Gyroscope can be used to emulate audio inputs

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1085789

People

(Reporter: nbp, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: privacy) 

Apparently some attackers are looking to use the gyroscope to listen to the voice of people by looking for high frequency data:

https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/66665
> Firefox for Android lets 
> websites access the full 200 hertz frequency. That means Android users 
> visiting a malicious site through Firefox could be subject to silent 
> eavesdropping via javascript without even installing any software.
padenot mentioned that only a few devices have the capabilities of having gyroscope data at 200Hz.

Daniel, do you know who could look at this privacy issue?
Flags: needinfo?(dveditz)
Keywords: privacy
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
We should be ok here now (see dupes).
Group: core-security
Flags: needinfo?(dveditz)
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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