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Researchers detail Bluetooth headphone attack that can hijack smartphones (www.itnews.com.au)

submitted 1 month ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Wired cans the safest to use.

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure where I got the notion, but ever since Bluetooth became available on my devices I've been disabling it under the impression that it was likely vulnerable (and my last phone kept silently enabling it every so often, which which quite annoying). Since then, a decent number of phone-side exploits of varying severity have come and gone. Now I guess the other devices are the weakest link.... Security probably isn't even much of a consideration when building such a product: "why would someone bother hacking an eatbud?"

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

turning of bt is a good idea (on devices where that is actualy possible) because all the other devices with bt that are internet connected can track you thru out the day, best example would be those electric scooters that are everywhere now, they make good mony by selling the location data of people they got from tracking bt ID's of phones walking by