Google Glass Hacked With QR Code

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Holy crap, talk about a massive oversight on Google's part. They are lucky the security researcher that discovered this is one of the good guys and not a malicious hacker. :eek:

We analyzed how to make QR codes based on configuration instructions and produced our own “malicious” QR codes. When photographed by an unsuspecting Glass user, the code forced Glass to connect silently to a “hostile” WiFi access point that we controlled. That access point in turn allowed us to spy on the connections Glass made, from web requests to images uploaded to the Cloud. Finally, it also allowed us to divert Glass to a page on the access point containing a known Android 4.0.4 web vulnerability that hacked Glass as it browsed the page.
 
Nice hack. I can't wait until Google comes out with the "Google Glass Geordi LaForge" version that connects directly to your nervous system and some hacker gives everyone a seizure.
 
This happened because they stopped asking how many golf balls can fit in an airplane.
 
People ever used QR codes?

I did once. It redirected me to a website. So, I have never used one again. I can type in a URL instead of having some masked URL as part of a QR code. I saw there was the potential to make a QR code with an infectious URL, so I never used that shit.
 
I did once. It redirected me to a website. So, I have never used one again. I can type in a URL instead of having some masked URL as part of a QR code. I saw there was the potential to make a QR code with an infectious URL, so I never used that shit.

Exactly. I tried it once, saw it tried to open a page, and that was it. Even ignoring the possibility of malware, it's stupid since I could just type the damn URL instead of trying to get the camera to pick up the QR code through glare, crappy angle, or whatever.

I'm still waiting for the day that someone slaps a QR code sticker on an icecream truck for a porn site(probably already happened and no one has noticed yet).
 
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