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Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Counter article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Can you give us some more information on what's false?

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It’s a common way to interface with subsystems like wifi/bt/802.15.4 etc. you need physical access to the device or the ability to infect the firmware. If you can flash the device with your own firmware it’s already compromised

More info on the HN thread discussing the article. I dont read HN, but top comments had a bit more insights than the scare-mongering «news» article

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 4 months ago

Thx, that's helpful.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks, added the link to the post