Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily smears left on the device's screen by the user's fingers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: computer security
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
smudge + attack; coined in 2010 by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Computer and Information Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: see the quotation.
