For this, it was enough to take advantage of some openings offered by the tool.
For this, it was enough to take advantage of some openings offered by the tool.
LocationSmart sells itself as a real-time smartphone location service.
The tool then sent a text message asking permission to communicate with the nearest cell phone tower.
However, according to Xiao, LocationSmart did not perform basic checks to prevent anonymous, unauthorized searches.
The failure was proven by Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security.
According to him, tests showed the approximate location of five people.
With the authorization of each, Xiao was able to determine where they were.
The accuracy ranged from 90 meters to 2.5 kilometres.
After the breakthrough was discovered, the demonstration was taken off the air.
We take privacy seriously and we will review and investigate all the facts, he said.
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