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Story: Apple and Nike don't toe security line
The details aren't that important
There are lots of ways that this information could be used, though, and most of them would have been prevented by some reasonably simply precautions. The pattern of usage is different from Bluetooth, too; I could improvise an explosive device that was left in the bushes for days until the right person jogged past, which I couldn't do with BT or other radio systems.
Is that likely? I don't think so. But unless companies start thinking defensively when inventing embedded systems with communications, there will be unnecessary vulnerabilities introduced.
As the leader said, there will be plenty of occasions when a risk analysis will dictate that the simplest solution is fine. The important thing isn't to make the streets safe for radioactive joggers - a species I feel ripe for culling in any case - it's to get the industry thinking about security all the way through a design.
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