Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.

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• WIRED left

  Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
• Andy Greenberg center

  Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
• dell cameron center

  NEW: A hacker tracked @agreenberg.bsky.social from his apartment to the subway to his desk using a $30 kids' smartwatch, took photos through its camera and listened in on him at work. Tens of millions of the devices run on three backends in China, and they're all broken.
• Katie Drummond center

  “More troubling, perhaps, is that the online platform it’s built on…is used by dozens of other brands of smartwatch, many of which have likely been left vulnerable to the same forms of digital stalking.”