smudge attack
smudge attack · smudge attacks
A method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily…A method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily smears left on the device's screen by the user's fingers.
/smʌdʒ əˈtæk/
Meaning
1 sensesA method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily smears left on the device's screen by the user's fingers.
Origin
smudge + attack; coined in 2010 by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Deparsmudge + attack; coined in 2010 by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Computer and Information Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: see the quotation.
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