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Smartwatches are
vulnerable to
hacking
US researchers at the University of Illinois
developed an app that could guess which
words a smartwatch wearer was typing on
a keyboard, using data gathered from the
motion sensors in the watch.
The project has privacy implications, as an
app that is camouflaged as a pedometer,
for example, could gather data from emails,
search queries and other confidential
documents.
The researchers tested it on a Samsung
Gear smartwatch, but any smartwatch like
Apple Watch or Fitbit with an accelerometer
and gyroscope could be at risk.
17
October
2015