One common smartphone sensor that never seemed to pose much of a threat might in fact be the key to eavesdropping on a stranger’s conversation from afar. According to Wired, a group of researchers from Stanford University and the Israeli defense research group Rafael are going to hold a presentation at the Usenix security conference next week that will demonstrate how the gyroscope in your phone can be converted into “crude microphones” which can pick up sound waves in the area. We typically think of the gyroscope as the tool that allows us to tilt our iPhones and interact with games and apps, but with the Gyrophone software built by the research team, the sensor can be repurposed to listen in on a
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