Sneaky iPhone Thermal Cameras Can Steal Your Pin Codes

There are lots of fun things that you can do with that FLIR ‘predator vision’ infrared camera case but, as it turns out, there is also a very bad thing people can do.

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The thermal camera case which can be bought at flir.com or any apple stroe is quite fun has turn out to have some huge negative aspects. It can be used for stealing your pin codes.

this is how your pincode can be stolen via iphone’s thermal camera case

How ?

Image alike above is created via the flir iphone thermal camera case. It shows the heat present in the object. Your recently pressed button in payment machine absorbs some heat from your finger which can be captured by an evil minded person via this iphone thermal camera. The light ones are the one pressed first.

this is how you can protect your pincode from being stolen via thermal camera

Prevention

For protecting your pin code from being captured in a thermal camera , you can randomly put your fingers over the buttons. It will pass your heat , even though you haven’t pressed it. This way your pincode as well as your series of code will be safe and secure.