This is pretty terrible stuff.<p>"As both Sand and Xplora note, exploiting this backdoor would be difficult, since it requires knowledge of both the unique factory-set encryption key and the phone number assigned to the watch. For that reason, there’s no reason for people who own a vulnerable device to panic."<p>Yeah don't panic, because it would be hard for anyone else to activate these features ...<p>But it would be easy for the folks who added them to do so.
Additional technical background is available in the following blogpost: <a href="https://www.mnemonic.no/blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-products/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mnemonic.no/blog/exposing-backdoor-consumer-prod...</a>
Oh this is becoming very tiresome. Why don't we just rename 'back doors' to 'front doors'. It'd save a lot of effort not to mention many news column-inches.