Reverse-engineering a connected Furby toy, revealing its disturbing security defects | Droolin Dog dot Net

When Context Labs teamed up with UK consumer group Which? to produce an outstanding report on the surveillance, privacy and security risks of kids’ “connected toys,” it undertook the reverse-engineering of Hasbro’s new Furby Connect, a device that works with a mobile app to listen and watch the people around it and interact with them.(more…) Source: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/26/kill-it-with-fire.html Tags: #pch3lp, #TechNews, pch3lp, Privacy | #Privacy, random, Security | #Security, PCH3lp, TechNews

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