Could we teach students how to hack hardware. DDDO PO 5

Thinking about the new standards and the opportunities around the integration of learning areas. This is something that is especially part of me and my teaching over the past four years.  Thinking about opportunities to integrate health and digital technologies. I have been the teacher in charge or mountain biking, adventure racing and orienteering, as well as taught two comodules with health and physical education at year 9 and 10.  While there is a lot talked about ethics within digital technologies, the ideas around fitness and the hardware that is now available that students wear or have access to.  is it ethical to hack a device? Is it ethical what about where the data goes? What are the relevant social, ethical and end-user considerations when doing this?  Being able to get this data to be used in an authentic and meaningful context. While the apps show one side of the data, what else is being recorded and sent. Could we be teaching students how to hack their devices? I am looking at the Alternative fit bit, MI Band 2 for this project. Some details if you are hardware inclined: https://medium.com/machine-learning-world/how-i-hacked-xiaomi-miband-2-to-control-it-from-linux-a5bd2f36d3ad python https://github.com/addibble/MiBand2 But as the DDDO PO5 states, with support, so information and guidance can be given to students. Looking at how this might integrate into DDDO progress outcome 5 In authentic contexts and with support, students investigate a specialised digital technologies area (for example, digital media, digital information, electronic environments, user experience design, digital systems) and propose possible solutions to issues they identify. They independently apply an iterative process to design, develop, store and test digital outcomes that enable their solutions, identifying, evaluating, prioritising and responding to relevant social, ethical and end-user considerations. They use information from testing and, with increasing confidence, optimise tools, techniques, procedures and protocols to improve the quality of the outcomes. They apply evaluative processes to ensure the outcomes are fit-for-purpose and meet end-user requirements.