Entirely missed my point, but other comments here summarize it way better than I did. The point is that this is nothing new, these types of attack vectors have

Entirely missed my point, but other comments here summarize it way better than I did. The point is that this is nothing new, these types of attack vectors have been actively exploited for a very long time. If you are a thief, undercover agent, assassin, etc, you aren't going to disclose your methods. The people who know how, and do hack security measures like this keep it under wraps. I'm all for responsible disclosure, but that term only exists in the realm of ethical security. People who use these methods for malicious reasons are under no obligation to disclose what they do. So in turn, while the article makes it out to seem like this one company has hit a groundbreaking discovery, it's really not. Props to the guys at F-secure, but they are late to the game compared to the unethical realm of physical security hacking.