It's trivially simple to connect to strangers' fitness bands and extract sensitive personal information from them.
Fitness Bands Found to Be Ripe for Hacking : Read more
Fitness Bands Found to Be Ripe for Hacking : Read more
That’s not the point... It’s like saying your only care about “security” on the checkout page on a website when you buy stuff as that’s where the "sensitive" data is located. You are 4getting that wherever you are visiting (like when you read this post) you do a footprint that some can use to identify you and then do some serious profiling.i store ALL of my banking information and my social security and driver's licence numbers on my fitness band. don't you?
this would require all of these bands to have a GPS with a breadcrumb trail. do they? i suppose if people are dumb enough to always have everything on and always paired and always connected to their facebook and twitter with hourly updates, then yeah some info could be gleaned from that. and maybe people who are THAT open need to be violated a bit
and i don't need to analyze reams of data from a fitness tracker to figure out that at 3am, if the lights are off at a random house, people are likely sleeping. and at 10am on a Tuesday, most homes are empty since people are at work.