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Laura Barilli laura.barilli@mail.polimi.itLuisa Cucugliato luisa.cucugliato@mail.polimi.it

Thursday, March 31, 2016Politecnico di Milano

Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB)

Analysis of State of art

NECST lab, Via Ponzio, Building 20

Reverse Engineering of Biomedical Elaborated Signal

•Fitness Tracker

Fitness Medical

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Fitness

• Nike+ Fuel Band• Fitbit• Xiaomi• Jawbone • Misfit• Garmin

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/09/how-apple-watch-can-gain-wearables-market-share-in.aspx

Support for athletes activity

2014 7.1 million units

2015 21.2 million units

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Medical

• Empatica Embrace • Angel Sensor

Doctor

Patients

Monitoring of medical disorders

https://www.empatica.com 4

Closed source

• Xiaomi

• Jawbone

• Nike+ Fuel Band

• Empatica Embrace

• Fitbit

Accessibility of data

Open source

• Angel sensor

Vs

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• Closed source

• Xiaomi

• Jawbone

• Nike+ Fuel Band

• Empatica Embrace

• Fitbit

Accessibility of data

Open source

• Angel sensor

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Closed source

• Xiaomi

• Jawbone

• Nike+ Fuel Band

• Empatica Embrace

• Fitbit

Accessibility of data

Access of data is facilitated by Bluetooth communication

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.5672v1.pdf http://www.techinsider.io/7-fitness-trackers-fail-basic-security-test-2016-2

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Reverse engineering

Nike+ Fuel Band

https://www.evilsocket.net/2015/01/29/nike-fuelband-se-ble-protocol-reversed/

Simone Margaritelli

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Reverse engineering

Fitbit“An attacker can reverse engineer the Fitbit protocols and send malware to the wearable fitness tracker nearby at a Bluetooth distance, which would then be transferred to any PC the Fitbit came into contact with.”

http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/hack-fitbit.html

Khyati Jain

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Reverse engineering

Xiaomi

https://hackaday.io/project/6581/logs

Figure out the protocol for the purposes of:

• Reading the step count• Reading activity data Writing the firmware• Buzzing the device

Morgan Gangwere

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Why Xiaomi

• Economic • Easy to reverse• Comfortable• Battery last 30 days• Easy to buy

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Why Xiaomi

• Economic • Easy to reverse• Comfortable• Battery last 30 days• Easy to buy

We want to use the data detected from a cheap fitness tracker to study medical conditions

Fitness Medical

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Contacts

Reverse Engineering of Biomedical Elaborated Signal

Laura.barilli@mail.polimi.itLuisa.cucugliato@mail.polimi.it

https://www.facebook.com/reebes.project2016/

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