Pupil mental health monitor "Steer" promises app rewrite after hardcoded login creds discovered

mood · Sep 27, 2019

Pupil mental health monitor promises app rewrite after hardcoded login creds discovered
September 27, 2019
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/27/pupil_mental_health_tracking_app_security_fears/

A British firm whose mobile apps monitor the mental state of 35,000 British schoolchildren is having to rewrite them after researchers found hardcoded login credentials within.
"Tracking steering biases is a pioneering technique developed by STEER using AI to identify patterns of bias linked to mental health risks in 10,000 test students," burbles the company's website.

Yet versions of the apps developed for pupils and teachers alike contain hardcoded login credentials – posing a security risk to the most sensitive mental health data and information of the most vulnerable children.
Keys to the kids' castle
Privacy advocate and internet troublemaker Gareth Llewellyn discovered the login credentials. Embedded within the Android version of AS Tracking were what appeared to be username and password pairs [...]
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Pupil mental health monitor "Steer" promises app rewrite after hardcoded login creds discovered

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