New Google Glass surveillance trick really shows why we need alternatives to passwords

😃 Hello I just need to add someones reply because its very funny to me:
 
What's really scary is people who handle our personal information everyday wearing these. The receptionist at the doctors office? The customer service representative? The county clerk? The person behind you at the ATM? The cashier with your credit card? They all aren't winking at you because you've gotten progressively more beautiful.
 
Isnt that the truth!!:S
 
 
 
From Jaspers Article:Full Article
 
 

Well, they might have been in the past...but perhaps not anymore.  Having said that I strongly suspect that most of the people you have mentioned probably have more sense than to by Google Glasses...at least I hope so.
 
 
This is just one step too far too precipitously IMHO.

Well hello Baldrick, these Google Glasses would be ONE Gadjets I wouldn't fall for! They aren't very pretty either! 😉

My 1st reaction to Google Glasses was "great another creation for privacy invasion". Like anything else, in time, others will come up with similar products and price will go down. They already started making different frames! So we now have another novelty to contribute to increasing fraud and identy theft. 

Wearable tech, especially once it becomes 1) small enough to be not noticed and 2) cheap enough for anyone to afford:
 
Is the absolute nemesis when it comes to privacy and identity theft.  It really is NOT a good thing.

Wearable cams can record your PIN from 40 paces

By John Leyden, 26 Jun 2014
 
Google Glass wearers can snoop on passcodes and other sensitive information with only a passing glance, according to a proof-of-concept demo by security researchers.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Lowell were able to use video streams from wearables like Google Glass and the Samsung smartwatch to capture four-digit PIN codes typed onto an iPad from around three metres away.
 Video recognition software developed by the team was capable of identifying passcodes most of the time, even when the screen is unreadable because of glare or similar problems. An understanding of an iPad’s geometry means that simply knowing the position of a user’s fingers is enough for the snooping technology to work, Wired reports.
 
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CNN is finally getting around to reporting this today: "Google Glass wearers can steal your password"
 
There is actually a really easy solution, already in use in some secure door PIN keypads: the numbers are simply in randomized postitions each time the dispay comes on.
 
Yes.. that will slow you down on keying in your device PIN, but the pattern changes every time so the Glass Hack could be easily defeated.
 

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CNN is finally getting around to reporting this today: "Google Glass wearers can steal your password"
 
There is actually a really easy solution, already in use in some secure door PIN keypads: the numbers are simply in randomized postitions each time the dispay comes on.
 
Yes.. that will slow you down on keying in your device PIN, but the pattern changes every time so the Glass Hack could be easily defeated.
 

That is a clever fix for the issue.  Although any ATMs with real keys and no touchscreens will have to be upgraded.  I guess they can do that while they are upgrading them from Windows XP lol 🙂

I dont get why it took so long for them to say so. That was one of my very 1st thoughts about Google Glasses the 1st time I heard about it.
 
Not only that, shouldnt there be some kind of liability here on Googles part? 

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CNN is finally getting around to reporting this today: "Google Glass wearers can steal your password"
 
There is actually a really easy solution, already in use in some secure door PIN keypads: the numbers are simply in randomized postitions each time the dispay comes on.
 
Yes.. that will slow you down on keying in your device PIN, but the pattern changes every time so the Glass Hack could be easily defeated.
 

That is a clever fix for the issue.  Although any ATMs with real keys and no touchscreens will have to be upgraded.  I guess they can do that while they are upgrading them from Windows XP lol :)

My local hospital, that is behind the times on pretty much everything, has that kind of keypad on the secure doors.  There is a start button, and after that the keypad displays but in a random pattern 🙂

That also gets around the trick of seeing which buttons are worn or greasy to figure out the code.