Security researcher Brendan O’Conner recently wondered how easy it would be to monitor—as a private citizen—the movement of strangers on the street. So he built 10 contraptions made of sensors, a tiny computer and Wi-Fi adaptors and proceeded to spy on himself. The data his contraptions collected sent signals to a command-and-control system and included the unique identifiers to his phone and iPad—in unencrypted fashion, The New York Times reports. “Actually it’s not hard,” O’Connor said. “It’s terrifyingly easy…It could be used for anything, depending on how creepy you want to be.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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