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Hristo Bojinov, Stanford University

Stanford PhD candidate, Hristo Bojinov, seen reflected in his Samsung Galaxy Nexus, is working on a means to identify specific phones based on unique fingerprints of the device's microphone and accelerometer. His concerns for the public are that advertise

Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle

One afternoon late last month, security researcher Hristo Bojinov placed his Galaxy Nexus phone face up on the table in a cramped Palo Alto conference room. Then he flipped it over and waited another beat.

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