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New Bluetooth Vulnerability Leak, Your Passcode to Hackers During Pairing (gbhackers.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The comma makes this title read very weird.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

I can't seem, to parse it for the life of me

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't know Christopher Walken was into netsec.

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Now imagine: I use arch, by the way 😅😂

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I would have called this a comma splice, but apparently what I was taught that is - just a comma incorrectly inserted into a sentence - is not the entirety of what a comma splice is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Who uses Bluetooth passcodes?

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They are used for most pairing sequences, but we don't type them in anymore. They are used more to validate that it's you that are connecting two devices.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In other words, this vulnerability isn’t that big of a deal.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe? There are a ton of shitty BT implementations in the wild that will never get patched. This does seem quirky at first glance, but could just as easily affect millions of vehicles, as an example.

If I was so inclined, I would camp out in a busy parking lot with an antenna just to see what I could find.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

This vuln is not new, it was published 3.5 years ago: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26558