We’ve written before about what Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses can see and hear, and who might get to use that information. Those worries focus on how the glasses handle information during normal use. A security researcher has now shown how to bypass a safeguard meant to stop unauthorized software running on them. Vulnerability researcher Paula,
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A security researcher has managed to run her own code on Meta's connected glasses, then bypass the company's patch. The faults, reported to Meta, have since been corrected. She presents herself under the pseudonym of "pamoutaf". In a blog post published on 6 November, this