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Extracting Data From the Microsoft Band
An anonymous reader writes The Microsoft Band, introduced last month, hosts a slew of amazing sensors, but like so many wearable computing devices, users are unable to access their own data. A Brown University professor decompiles the app, finds that the data is transmitted to the Microsoft "cloud", and explains how to intercept the traffic to retrieve the raw minute-by-minute data captured by the Band.
"she's sleeping, RIGHT NOW!".
'nuff said.
So, that's like the early Ramones? All the songs 2 minutes and 30 seconds long, three chords max?
Why would anyone allow Mickey$oft to spy on you even more they already do now through their O/S's, Bing, etc...???
Anyone who does deserves the results!!!
Probably violated the EULA by doing that.
Microsoft has undoubtedly unleashed the hounds.
... yep that's it.
anyone that can spoof a MITM attack on microsoft band and steal your personal data. enjoy suckers
And THIS was why I didn't want to get the damn thing, because I don't know to whom they might be peddling my stats. My insurance provider, for example? Pharma? Just let me keep my data and don't treat me as your resource mine, and I might try your snazzy new product.
Amazing. Used to have to commit a crime to get one of these. Now they can be ordered online!
I hear "Microsoft Band", and wonder what kind of music they play?
Sole control of Internet-connected devices ... especially servers.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Seems only thing this industry is capable of producing these days is creepy stalker gadgets.
It's disgusting that companies behave like creepy stalkers when they have your data, but...
I think it's interesting that mankind shows this need to quantify itself and achieve a sort of data-driven physical self-awareness. We're seeing the first generation to possess this kind of data, and I look forward to seeing what Smart People and Other Hackers can do with this data and their physical self-awareness. Perhaps when mankind has satiated its desire for physical self-awareness, we'll be able to return to our spiritual and philosophical sides. If we're not all already slaves to the global state.
Or perhaps when we're oppressed by the global state, that will be the time for a new revolution and re-birth of rule by thinking people, similar to what happened when the American colonists threw off the oppression of the British monarchy, resulting in wonderful but short-lived goodness of the US Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, founding fathers, etc.
Vaya con huevos, my darling.
American colonists threw off the oppression of the British monarchy, resulting in wonderful but short-lived goodness of the US Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, founding fathers, etc.
citation needed
I suppose I find it less interesting and simply factual. People respond well to having a number to try to move, or a goal to try to reach. Knowing this about myself, it's a useful tool to have.
The one thing I wouldn't mind changing is having a vendor that keeps all the data local rather than uploading it to servers somewhere. I don't care too much that it's uploaded to servers somewhere, but it'd be a nice plus if I had the option to keep everything local. Then again, I use sites that have a social fitness component, so I'd probably still share. Maybe what I want is just the option to restrict the vendor from sharing, and the right to permanently delete the data when I'm done with it.