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Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by ryanmcbride on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @06:31PM (#7941089)
It seems like any video enabled device can steal your passcode if it sees you enter it. The phone they used did even better in glass from 10 feet away.

I hope this makes a push for more/better biometric locks on every day devices.

Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by sanswork on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @06:52PM (#7941209)
Biometrics are just passwords you can never change. In "something you know, something you have" the second probably shouldn't be something you can never change if compromised.
Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by dublinben on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:19PM (#7941321)
Fingerprints are also one of the most promiscuous of biometric indicators possible. You leave your fingerprints just about everywhere you go, which can be picked up with some powder and sticky tape.

I would never consider my fingerprint to be a secure form of identification, nor should systems be designed that make this assumption.

Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by lotu on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:11PM (#7941513)
I don't know I can see fingerprints being more secure than 4 digit pin. I can watch people enter their 4 digit pin and memorize just by standing next to them on the subway. I can't do the same thing with a fingerprint.
Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by dublinben on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:29PM (#7941559)
It's possible you could actually lift a usable fingerprint off the surface of a phone that you find. We leave them everywhere.
Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by ryanmcbride on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:21PM (#7941326)
That's a good point. But while it's permanent it's at least harder to replicate for the time being.
Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by enraged_camel on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @06:57PM (#7941230)
>>It seems like any video enabled device can steal your passcode if it sees you enter it. The phone they used did even better in glass from 10 feet away.

The difference is that when you record someone with a non-wearable device, it's pretty obvious. In the phone example, you have to hold it up a certain way, which will immediately alert the target (as well as anyone in the vicinity) if they are paying attention.

With Glass though, who knows if you are recording or not? AFAIK there isn't a red "recording" light that comes on, right? So as far as people are concerned, you might just be casually glancing in their direction, except you aren't.

Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by codeka on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:07PM (#7941280)
From the article, they were able to capture the PIN code from across the street and two stories up using a camcorder. You're not even going see that person.
Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by raldi on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:01PM (#7941246)
> In the phone example, you have to hold it up a certain way, which will immediately alert the target (as well as anyone in the vicinity)

That's not really true. It's very easy to take a picture while holding the phone in a way that makes it look as if you're just reading it.

Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by personZ on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:08PM (#7941501)
With Glass though, who knows if you are recording or not?

Without Glass, who knows if you are recording or not.

The hysterics (largely driven through anti-Google rhetoric, fwiw. People like Gruber are on the front-lines of anti-Glass hate) seem naively simplistic. In this case, there are people stealing your pin codes, and they do it in bulk, using tiny, concealed video devices that you never knew were there.

And as for everyone else, any of them, and any of your environments, can be absolutely coated with surveillance devices. High capacity, very tiny cameras are literally low-single digit prices now.

Singling out Google glass users is luddism that uses it as an easy bully victim in hopes that it makes technology suddenly regress. Only technology is long past it.

Re:Google Glass Snoopers Can Steal Your Passcode With a Glance by Oletros on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @01:27AM (#7942395)
> AFAIK there isn't a red "recording" light that comes on, right?

Yes, there is