Yes, this scared me out too. So apprantly your android device can be hacked very easily. Here is a link to the video that shows you how, though its about 1 hour long. If you would rather want to know the gist of it than watching it the whole way through, read on! And for those who want to watch the video: http://revision3.com/hak5/the-android-kos-attack User scenario A: You have rooted your phone and adb access (USB debugging) is active - this case it makes it very easy for the hacker to gain access. To begin with there is a tool that is installed on the hacker's phone, lets call it phone A. Now you leave your phone (Phone B) alone in a party or a public place, the hacker gets his chance and connects his phone to yours using a USB OTG cable which he/she obviously carries. Runs a script on phone A which takes advantage of an android api that allows the script to run an application over the lock screen! Once the application is runnig, you can open the main menu and do what not
Here's something I read today and had thought of it earlier also. This is a fascinating thought. I really hope that people would succeed in whatever they are doing. Read on... WIRELESS ELECTRICITY: Power’s In The Air If phones, mice and keyboards could get wireless, why not everything else? In fact, about a hundred years ago, that untamed genius, Nikola Tesla had already begun to build a tower at Wardenclyffe, N.Y. to demonstrate the transmission of electricity without the use of wires. On a humbler scale, researchers at MIT are in the process of repeating the experiment with their own ideas and less ostentatious techniques. WiTricity Marin Soljacic, Assistant Professor of Physics at the MIT, has spent a considerable number of years trying to figure out how to transmit power without cables. Radio waves lose too much energy during their passage through the air and lasers are constrained by the necessity of line-of-sight. Soljacic decided to use Resonant Coupling, in which two object