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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The attack using a smartphone's accelerometer attempts to predict keystrokes in pairs, says Patrick Traynor (Computer Science), using the distance between keys and their position on the keyboard as hints for a custom dictionary. As long as the word is longer than two letters, the system has a good chance of detecting what’s been pressed. Source: Gizmodo
