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Google Glass Hacked, Can Record Everything You Stare At
Testosterone Pit ^ | JUNE 26, 2014 | wolf richter

Posted on 06/27/2014 2:27:50 AM PDT by expat1000

Hackers have already proven smarter than smartphones or just about any other connected electronic device, and soon they’ll hack into your fridge, thermostat, and toilet. The NSA got into your files stored in the cloud’s “secure” data centers. Chinese authorities got everything on your laptop that you left in your hotel room while going for quick beer at the bar downstairs. And now Dutch hackers, um “computer experts,” have commandeered Google Glass to take pics and videos of everything you're looking at.

Which could be expensive – the PIN you key into an ATM. Or more than embarrassing – strangely long stares at places that you don’t stare at in polite society, a naked date.... Possibilities are endless. Pics and videos will then be transferred, without the wearer’s knowledge, to another device where they can be stored and studied ad infinitum. For the lucky ones, it might end up on YouTube.

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1 posted on 06/27/2014 2:27:50 AM PDT by expat1000
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To take control, hackers need to transfer the script to Google Glass, which can be done in various ways, such as via a USB stick. “A pretty girl in the pub,” Bosboom helpfully suggests. Let her check out and try on the device, and while you’re intently focused on her assets, she might quickly connect a USB stick, and voilà.

Well, duh.

2 posted on 06/27/2014 2:56:13 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: expat1000

You could get lucky: maybe the government will just lose your files. Happens all the time.


3 posted on 06/27/2014 2:57:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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“strangely long stares at places that you don’t stare at in polite society, a naked date.... “

OK, I’m trying to wrap my brain around why somebody would be wearing the Google glasses during this activity.


4 posted on 06/27/2014 7:39:56 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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OK, I’m trying to wrap my brain around why somebody would be “wearing the Google glasses during this activity.”

To record it for their own use or pleasure.


5 posted on 06/27/2014 8:28:36 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000

well that would certainly take a cooperative date, wouldn’t it? ;-)


6 posted on 06/27/2014 12:38:06 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: rhoda_penmark
It really depends who is wearing the Google Glasses during U-No-What.


7 posted on 06/27/2014 1:12:04 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: expat1000
Anything that interacts with the outside world can be hacked. This should have been expected.
8 posted on 06/27/2014 4:22:12 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
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