Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk

guest · May 19, 2019

Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk
May 19, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/bluetooth-complex-security-risk/

Bluetooth offers so many options for deployment that developers don't necessarily have full mastery of the available choices—which can result in faulty implementations.

"One major reason Bluetooth is involved in so many cases is just how complex this protocol is," [...] "When you look at the Bluetooth standard it’s like 3,000 pages long—if you compare that to other wireless protocols like Wi-Fi, for example, Bluetooth is like 10 times longer."

[...] Steve Povolny, head of advanced threat research at McAfee [...] "I wouldn’t say that it's an insecure protocol by any means. Part of this is the fact that Bluetooth has not been as comprehensively studied by the security community as some things, and it's not as clear to vendors and manufacturers what the potential flaws are."
Locking It Down
The Bluetooth SIG says it is considering a next generation of resources for developers, including the possibility of creating a security audit tool coders can use to check their Bluetooth implementations.
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Rasheed187 · May 25, 2019

Yes, Bluetooth is a problem. I can't seem to disable it completely on both my PC and TV.

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