disable the accelerometer on the n900

by Jörg Baach — last modified Nov 06, 2011 07:25 PM

There is a attack that uses the accelerometers to 'sniff' passwords. I would like to disable them.

This describes the attack:

A quick demo to test to see if its affecting my browser:

How do I turn it off?

rmmod lis302dl

or disable the module loading:

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