Google Glasses are one of the most desired technological items in 2013. It may seem like it’s taking a long time for them to come out, but the delay is for good reason; safety is a major concern related to the product. Recently, a security flaw was found by Jay Freeman, one of 8,000 beta testers of the glasses. This flaw can allow a hacker to, in a sense, hack into someone’s sight and hearing, by hijacking the camera and microphone built into the glasses.
There are a couple reasons that this flaw exists. One reason is that there is no security interface at all, whether it be a pass code or voice recognition. This, combined with a coding flaw, makes the glasses very vulnerable to attack or hacking. This flaw opens up many dangerous opportunities; the device could be used to take a picture of a key to replicate, or take video of a security code. Google is looking into all possible solutions to this problem. These safety and privacy concerns need to be addressed and fixed, and may increase the time before the glasses are released to the general public.
