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Re:Police Use Fitbit Data to Charge 90-Year-Old Man in Stepd... by newsbinator on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:17AM (#18137602)
If the courts rely on these devices, then these devices will log users.

So if a second person puts on your device, and their physical numbers (heartrate, gait, perspiration, etc) differ from yours, you can get a notification, just like when you log into your email from an unknown location.

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Re:Police Use Fitbit Data to Charge 90-Year-Old Man in Stepd... by 14 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:33AM (#18137665)
I immediately thought about something like a jailbreak for the device where an attacker could attach a computer, run an exploit, and upload whatever data he predetermined. After the code was run it would leave no trace behind and hard to prove otherwise for the owner.
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Re:Police Use Fitbit Data to Charge 90-Year-Old Man in Stepd... by akuji1993 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @03:04AM (#18137798)
You might also be able to just alter the requests the fitbit sends to the servers to save the data from the device to show what you want (heart rate stopping at another time, differing heart rates, living for two more hours giving you time for an alibi).
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