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With this feature enabled, can adversaries (with a bluetooth antenna) detect your phone's presence, even if it's off? What do they see? Do they see your device
by diebeforei485 5y ago
With this feature enabled, can adversaries (with a bluetooth antenna) detect your phone's presence, even if it's off?
What do they see? Do they see your device name eg. "Craig's iPhone", or do they just see random alphanumeric characters?
- reasonabl_human 5y agoProbably an encrypted payload to be forwarded to apples ‘find my’ services
- SwaraLink 5y agoApple devices all use a private resolvable Bluetooth address that changes every 15 minutes. That, along with a cryptographic payload, protect against this. Aside from Apple products and Android phones, most other Bluetooth Products do not use private resolvable addresses, and many have the issue that you describe. The name isn’t always so obvious, but sometimes there is identifiable data that can be read.