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Make me want to setup a raspberry pi in a public place and just see what sort of things people send to it.
by matthewfcarlson 5y ago
Make me want to setup a raspberry pi in a public place and just see what sort of things people send to it.
- matthewfcarlson 5y agoOr the reverse of that where it sends a random meme to anyone walking by.
- patentatt 5y agoOh no, a thousand marketers just had the idea of automatically airdropping advertisements to passers-by. You could even structure it as a lottery-esque type of thing, only giving out good coupons or discounts to random individuals at random intervals, prompting people to loiter and wait for theirs.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoHah, make it give out cryptocoins, and take the idea of peasants waiting for royalty to make it rain money to the 21st century, where it all happens digitally/using a smartphone. Did kings and emperors even do that in the old times?
- tinus_hn 5y agoThe default is to only accept transfers from people that are in your address book.
- fosefx 5y agoIf I understood their paper[1] correctly you can just use a popular phone number that a person walking by is likely to have in their contacts, like an emergency line number. My mobile telco's SIM comes with a couple of contacts on it like their customer support line. I don't know anything about AirDrop, but I assume this will work. [1]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/heinrich https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat...
- lxgr 5y agoAs far as I understand the protocol, you'd need a certificate signed by Apple in order to be able to masquerade as that contact in somebody's contact list, and Apple only signs these after phone number or email confirmation.
- tinus_hn 5y ago> We support contacts-only devices by using extracted AirDrop credentials (keys and certificates) from macOS via our keychain extractor. This should make it clear that you can’t just claim any phone number or email address.
- ascagnel_ 5y agoYou joke, but Apple rolled out some BT-based beacon stuff that allows stores to do some user tracking at short range -- and it can be used to pop local notifications. I don't think stores have gone down the "you're here and we're going to advertise to you" route (since that'd be creepy as hell), but its more grist for the mill.
- slj 5y agoWhen I walked into the local Apple store circa 2019 I was greeted with a “welcome to Apple” notification from the Apple store app. It’s the only example I’ve seen of iBeacons being used that I personally know of.
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- BeFlatXIII 5y agoBefore the pandemic, one of my friends used to have a hobby of going to bars and conventions and AirDropping pictures of ducks to strangers who left their AirDrop turned on.
- copperx 5y agoWas it really ducks, or was it an autocorrection?
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoThey were ducks. Mallard, wood duck, those Chinese ducks with the fancy feathers, he had them all.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoThis was a thing: https://piratebox.cc/start https://piratebox.cc/start : open WiFi network that's not connected to the Internet, but it had a forum software. I even bought a simple router and got it installed, but I sadly never set it up in public. A friend who was involved with a local hangout got interested in the idea of an "Internet" where you had to physically go to the location to access the content, although I don't think he set it up there either.
- k_bx 5y agowild guess: dickpics
- coolspot 5y agoPavel Zhovner, creator of Flipper[1] had this cool post [2] in June 2020 on how he used Apple AirDrop for automated dating and fun. It included the phone number recovery component as well. 1 - https://flipperzero.one/ https://flipperzero.one/ 2 - https://m.habr.com/ru/company/ruvds/blog/505384/ https://m.habr.com/ru/company/ruvds/blog/505384/