A team of university researchers has devised a new optical-acoustic side channel attack dubbed ‘Side Eye,’ which can extract ambient sound from the environment at the time an image was taken.

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https://restoreprivacy.com/side-eye-attack-extracting-audio-from-still-smartphone-images/

Is Side Eye a real threat?

Many attack concepts of this kind are limited to the theoretical realm. However, documenting them is crucial given the accelerated technological progress across various domains constantly opening up new practical capabilities