CS Researchers Demonstrate IoT Privacy Concerns with ShoesHacker | Illinois Computer Science
With life-saving, safety-conscious, and performance-enhancing applications, smart shoes technology have a lot to offer. From monitoring the elderly for falls to analyzing the way a patient walks to correct their posture (and even analyzing force patterns as NBA players run up and down the court to help maximize their skills), there are a lot of scenarios where smart shoes might be employed. However, these benefits don’t come without a downside: the possibility that hackers could use sensing data to invade a user’s privacy and perhaps even determine his or her location.