Google Glass Gets a Whole Lot Creepier When You Root It

Google Glass has plenty of folks a little frightened of being record in hidden , but read “ OK Glass ” and the transcription light are kind of a dead giveaway . But a frozen pair of specs ? Thosecould be a creeper ’s dream .

In a chat with ZDNet , Google Glass jailbreaker Saurikrelayed some slightly touch information about what rooted Google Glass can do . The transcription light , as it turns out , is n’t exactly a light ; instead it ’s a reflection of activeness in the trivial eye - prism . Still , it ’s noticeable . But because no igniter is hardwired in — as they are on many laptop webcam for incisively this reason — the whole affair can be hem in in software , make surreptitious recording a breeze .

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Likewise , rooting a set of Google Glass makes it easy to get around the build - in trigger phrase for launch apps . With just a little bit of tweaking , owners of rout Glass could activate enter with just about any innocuous phrase , like “ of course of study I ’m not recording . ” And , on top of all that , Glass unit do n’t have any sort of PIN ignition lock functionality , so stock-still goggles could also consort the risk of being commandeer by some nefarious third party .

Of of course , this is still the first version of Google ’s ironware , and it ’s a developer unit . These are n’t even intended for the world . By the metre a consumer model comes out , there could be solutions in place to make this kind of stuff harder if not quite impossible . And all in all , these would n’t be security risks exclusive to Google ’s product ; they ’d just be part of wearing a camera on your head . call up about it : thanks to smartphones , pretty much everyone is already “ wearing a telegram . ”

But do n’t worry too much . You ’re likely not that interesting . [ ZDNet ]

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