Your phone’s sensors can spy on you — here’s how

Is your microwave spying on you? Probably not, but your phone might be.

New research shows that hackers can use components in your phone to figure out your PIN -- and potentially more -- fairly simply. So how can your phone be used to spy on you, and what can you do about it?

In IT Blogwatch, we change our password (over and over and over again).

So what is going on? Tyler Lee has the background:

The point of PINs and passwords is to protect your device or account [from] being accessed by someone else. You might think that putting a PIN on your phone is a great way to prevent hackers...from getting into your phone, but...your phone might have already given you away.

What now? How could it have done that? Milen Y. explains:

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