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Ask HN: POTUS Wears a GPS Enabled Fitbit Surge. How Secure Is That?
- Someone1234 11y agoPOTUS also walks around with a cellphone. At least as safe as that.
- mcintyre1994 11y agoAccording to the Guardian [0] Obama's phone is specially hardened by the NSA, so maybe not necessarily? [0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/28/which-phones-world-leaders-use http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/28/which-phon...
- Someone1234 11y agoI guess it depends what "security" we're discussing. I was talking about passive signal noise which could be used to locate a potential target (e.g. pick the president's vehicle from the identical ones in the motorcade). Even a hardened phone will still leak EM radiation. If we're talking about informational security, well, I don't know why we would. The Fitbit doesn't sync realtime and most of the president's meetings are public. So while it would be extremely embarrassing, I don't know how compromising it would be.
- brlewis 11y agoThe Surge GPS is turned off except when doing a GPS-enabled exercise like bicycling or running, so as you commented earlier the phone is the weak link here. The Fitbit Surge can be ignored.
- Gustomaximus 11y agoIn his show with Bear Grylls he said he can't carry a phone for security reasons as they are too easy to track. So I font know if his desire to have a phone has been overridden as I do recall him insisting on keeping this in his early presidency. Though I thought not having a phone for anti-tracking is strange as he borrowed his aides phone for the photos. So couldn't 'whoever' simply track his inner circles phones? In which case he may as well carry a phone and an agent secures the phone for anything where tracking could be an issue?
- jp37okc 11y agoHow do I get access to txt and mms as well as calls without accessing the target phone ,,from my phone
- jp37okc 11y agoHow do I get access to txt and mms as well as calls without accessing the target phone ,,from my phone
- jp37okc 11y agoHow do I get access to txt and mms as well as calls without accessing the target phone ,,from my phone
- jp37okc 11y agoHow to access by remote calls txt sms mms call log etc from my phone wth out access to the target phone