A company called Dekoda Watson has launched a toilet attachment that takes pictures of your poop and sends them to your doctor. The device, of course called Throne, sits inside your toilet bowl and uses cameras and sensors to analyze what you flush. It's supposed to help monitor digestive health by tracking things like stool consistency and frequency. The company claims the device uses encryption to protect the images, but security researchers found some major problems. The encryption system has serious flaws that could let hackers access the poop photos.
Researchers discovered the device uses a weak form of encryption that can be easily broken. Even worse, the system stores unencrypted thumbnails of the images on its servers. The company's privacy policy also allows them to share de-identified data with third parties for research. While the idea of tracking digestive health might appeal to some people, the security issues raise concerns about who could potentially see very private bathroom data. Experts say the device needs much better security before anyone should trust it with such sensitive information. Until that happens, you have to worry about your poop getting hacked.
Source: The Register