• redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    7 months ago

    I mean, just look at what happened over in ios land. Every time there is a new security issue or denial of service attack on their bluetooth stack, apple has to scramble to fix it because bluetooth is always on in their devices. Android at least has some respite by turning off bluetooth, especially on old devices that no longer receiving security updates.

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        7 months ago

        My bad for exaggerating. Yes, you can permanently disable bluetooth on iphone, but iphone users are less likely to do so compared to android users. This is by design because apple needs the majority of users to have their bluetooth turned on for their find my network. This made bluetooth-based security issue more impactful in apple ecosystem than in android.

        Now that Google is planning to do the same in android, I’m worried that it’ll be even worse than in apple ecosystem simply because most android phones have much shorter support period. This means future bluetooth vulnerabilities might remain unpatched in some phones and those phones will be more likely to have bluetooth turned on.

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          7 months ago

          So many assumptions here, I bet you think you’re smart 😂 with your ggoogly phone ttracker marketing device.

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            7 months ago

            Why can’t we discuss some topics without resorting to personal attack? If you disagree with something, you can always refute it without being a dick.