Google Glass HACKED To Transmit Everything You See And Hear

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Google Glass Isn’t Even
a “Real” Product Yet !

 

But Hackers Have a Dream…

 

Experts warn ‘the only thing it doesn’t know are your thoughts’

  • Security hole can let hackers take control of the wearable computer
  • Video and audio can be watched from anywhere in the world
  • System can even watch people type passwords into other services

Hackers claim thy can remotely take control of Glass, and see and hear everything a wearer does. Today they called for Google to improve the security on the device before it goes on sale to the public next year

Hackers claim thy can remotely take control of Glass, and see and hear everything a wearer does. Today they called for Google to improve the security on the device before it goes on sale to the public next year.

Google’s Glass wearable computer have been hacked so video and audio can be transmitted online to anyone.

Hackers have been able to remotely watch and hear everything a wearer does, and today warned ‘nothing is safe once your Glass has been hacked.’

Although Glass does not go on sale to the public until next year, the attack raises major security and privacy questions over Google’s plans for the device.

 Hackers claim thy can remotely take control of Glass, and see and hear everything a wearer does. Today they called for Google to improve the security on the device before it goes on sale to the public next year

 

Robert Scoble, a tech blogger, has already tweeted a picture of himself in the shower with Glass - but experts warn 'private moments' could be seen by hackers in Google Glass
Robert Scoble, a tech blogger, has already tweeted a picture of himself in the shower with Glass.
But experts warn ‘private moments’ could be seen by hackers.
 
‘Once the attacker has root on your Glass, they have much more power than if they had access to your phone or even your computer: they have control over a camera and a microphone that are attached to your head,’ wrote Jay ‘saurik’ Freeman, a well known programmer who has previously developed hacked to bypass security on iPhones and Android handsets.

‘A bugged Glass doesn’t just watch your every move: it watches everything you are looking at (intentionally or furtively) and hears everything you do.

‘The obvious problem, of course, is that you might be using it in fairly private situations.

‘The only thing it doesn’t know are your thoughts.’

The hack uses a known bug in the Android software that runs of the Glass, a modified version of the Android softare also found in Google’s mobile phones.

Article by Mark Prigg DailyMail.co.uk