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megalodon on July 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band

It is most certainly not a waste of time! According to a recently published article [1], researchers managed to crack ATM PINs with 80-percent accuracy on the first try using the motion sensors on smartwatches.

[1] http://phys.org/news/2016-07-smartwatch-atm-pin.html

DiabloD3 on July 9, 2016 [–]

Which is why I largely like randomized touch screen number pads. They may be able to tell where I touched, but not what I touched.

However, Google Glass or Microsoft Holo type applications become a somewhat hilarious much better way of doing this.

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