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Charging Into Your Privacy: Indirect Privacy Leakage Attack Using a Laptop Charger

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Summary

PrivateCharger is a side-channel attack that infers user activity by analyzing variations in the magnetic field emitted by a laptop charger, without physical access to the laptop. It uses only commercially available devices and no hardware modifications, and reaches an average of 84.6% recognition accuracy on two MacBook Pro models at 50% to 80% battery levels.