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This article is the equivalent of TMZ for tech. Just tech fearmongering for non-technical readers. It's just your run-of-the-mill Bluetooth peripheral hijack th
by aa_is_op 3y ago
This article is the equivalent of TMZ for tech. Just tech fearmongering for non-technical readers. It's just your run-of-the-mill Bluetooth peripheral hijack that's been around for 20 years.
- jareklupinski 3y agoit's hardly an improvement on the classic PS/2 hijack, where the attacker hides behind your PC Tower until you reach back there to plug in your keyboard, then swats your hand away and plugs in their own keyboard instead
- darkwater 3y agoWell, I don't know. Silently pairing a BT keyboard with no notification to or interaction from the user seems a pretty big deal to me. Why are you downplaying this?
- bri3d 3y agoI’m kind of confused by this comment - I clicked the article expecting some breathless sensationalist nonsense, which is all too common these days, but it was pretty much just a summary of the actual vulnerabilities? One of them is literally “you can zero click inject keystrokes into any Android phone which has Bluetooth enabled with no user interaction,” that seems… I don’t know, reasonably bad?
- ectospheno 3y agoUsing adblockers and disabling bluetooth are two easy things to do to enhance your security and have been for some time now.