The public pre-released
google glass is vulnerable said software developers.
Tweeted by a software developer, the popular cydia
developer-Jay freeman popularly known as
Saurik stated on Friday that google glass which runs the android 4.0.4
version is subject to the ADB restore race condition, making it vulnerable to
exploitations after running a research on the developer’s model of the google
glass.
According to
forbes.com, Saurik found out that the use of of a propounded exploit by a
hacker known as Binary could grant a user full access to the google’s glass operating
system. The process entails backing up the device, modifying the back up and
while restoring the back up, changes are made to the restored data that
redirects the restored data to overwrite a critical configuration file. This
makes the device think it’s running on the android developer’s emulator which grants
full control to developers.
Liam McLoughlin, a software developer, also
described the google glass as an easy to root device on his twitter handle
@Hexxeh and that called for a response by Tim Bray(a google staff) who replied
that the google glass device is hackable.
This discovery could
help google glass users violate Google’s terms of use on the google glass
without it been detected according to Forbes and that I feel could possibly
signify that the device can be re-sold or shared by two or more users as
against Google’s instructions.
CYDIA NOW AVAILABLE ON ANDROID
No one could tell if
this leak could be vulnerable on the about to be released public version or
only possible on the developers version. I feel Google needs a re-think for a
secured re-work.
