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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Our end-to-end attacks simply measure the rendering time per frame of the graphical operations… to determine whether the pixel was white or non-white.”

This is a prime example of something that is so simple, yet elegant, and brilliant. Fantastically cool and scary.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Would color text on color background foil this? Red text on a green background, etc

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago

Not sure. Google patched it by just limiting the amount of blurs an app could request: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/20465375a1d0cb71cdb891235a9f8a3fba31dbf6

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Reminds me how in the early days the secret keys inside the smartchips in things like bank cards could be extracted by measuring the power consumption when the smartchips were doing things like signing data using those keys.