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Your Smart Scale is Leaking More than Your Weight: Privacy Issues in IoT

The Smart Scale Man-in-The-Middle looks at security issues in the Android app. It connects to the device. Sleeps for 5 seconds (meanwhile the device enters standby mode). Sends the request. Crashes the smart scale, crashes the device and freezes the screen with the light on. It’s also important to mention that resetting smart scale removes information such as other configuration steps the user took in the past. So we must also consider that the integrity of those settings is at stake also.”]

Source: https://checkmarx.com/blog/smart-scale-privacy-issues-iot/

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