With a name like ‘Freaky Leaky SMS’ I had to cover this research.
Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings (arxiv.org)
At the moment this a research paper, the “attack” has only be carried out in the lab and it takes a large amount of preparatory work. Determining a user’s location by measuring signal timings is not easy but is an interesting side channel vulnerability.
But what starts off in a lab could become a thing!
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
