Forbes October 4, 2024
I have, over the years, reported on many everyday devices that have been hacked in terrifyingly wonderful ways: light bulbs, vacuum cleaners, and most recently bicycles. ow, the most privacy-invasive of such hacks has come to my attention thanks to an alarming story first published at The Register: real x-ray specs that can dox anyone on sight. Here’s what you need to know.
Introducing I-XRAY: The AI Glasses That Can Dox People On Sight
AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, a human augmentation and physics researcher at Harvard, respectively, have published a paper that details how the project to build real x-ray specs has led them to construct a device that can grab someone’s name, home address, phone number and even...