Here’s an interesting one: The US Navy has developed an Android app that can use a phone’s camera to figure out where it’s at. As per geeksareseky.net:
“In Crane, Indiana, the Naval Warfare Surface Centre has revealed an app that shows you just how dangerous malware can be in the world of such intelligent phones. The app called PlaceRaider can take photos randomly while running in the background – you would never know it was happening. These photos can then be rendered on a central server and stitched together to reconstruct where the phone has been.”
It’s an interesting idea, though I wonder at its effectiveness out in the real world. My thoughts are that it’s one of those projects that looks cool on paper, and even works great in staged test environments, but then would go out into the wild and fail miserably.
What do you all think? I’d love to hear some other thoughts and ideas!
