Another team of researchers squeezed it into the body of an inconspicuous dry-erase marker.

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Soon, it was: Hackers began posting YouTube videos of their refinements of his technique, squeezing the necessary hardware into an inconspicuous iPhone case or the body of a dry-erase marker.

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However, as communicated in the Oct. 26 memo from Liam Brown and Jim Fisher, the device has since been made to fit inside a dry-erase marker and it is expected that there will be heightened awareness of this issue due to a story on ABC News.

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