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'Wifi Whisperer' Siphons Your Data in the Creepiest Way Possible

• http://www.wired.com, Liz Stinson

"Our phones leak data in a bunch of different ways," says artist Kyle McDonald. "Sometimes it's really insidious or unexpected."

Recently at Moogfest, a music and technology festival in Durham, N.C., McDonald with the help of fellow artist Surya Mattu created an installation called WiFi Whisperer that called attention to all that data your phone is giving away for free. As festivalgoers walked past the installation, the artwork grabbed insecure data and display it on monitors, while a hidden speaker whispered the stream of data—what networks you've recently connected to and websites you've visited, for example—like a creepy, demon-voiced Big Brother. "It's sort of like looking over someone's shoulder," says McDonald, "except you're doing it without actually looking over their shoulder."


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