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1247 points mangoman | 1 comments | 05 Dec 16 14:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
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acomar ◴[05 Dec 16 15:22 UTC] No.13105859[source]▶
I wonder how they plan to deal with fraud... some kind of check-in process instead?
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viktorelofsson ◴[05 Dec 16 15:23 UTC] No.13105870[source]▶
> With our Just Walk Out Shopping experience, simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take the products you want, and go! No lines, no checkout. (No, seriously.)

Yes, seems like you check-in with an app.

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1. VLM ◴[05 Dec 16 20:07 UTC] No.13108935[source]▶
It should be easy to MITM victims of powned phones unless they pay extremely close care to ping times or RTT in general.

All I have to do is pown someone's phone and use an app on my phone to make my phone look like its their phone, regardless of where they actually are. I can't imagine the facial recognition would be that good.

Its a simple extension of physically stealing phones or cloning like people did in the 80s/90s on analog AMPS. cloning is interesting to think about, steal their amazon auth info, remotely brick their phone for good luck, walk in with a burner phone claiming to be their new phone, its all good.