Comment on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station

Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  USB is way safer lol.

  Bluetooth is notoriously bad with security. Especially Bluetooth 4 and earlier. I’d put money on a gas station pumps Bluetooth to not be using the most up to date protocol.

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  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like saying TCP has bad security. That is to say, pointless comparison. Bluetooth is just transport layer and security is done on higher level. This is most likely the classic example of “security through obscurity”. Meaning they did nothing special and hoped no one will figure it out, just like recent TETRA vulnerability.

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    • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Come on now! The pumps required you to enter the secret pairing code: “12345”

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      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You fool! It was 00000, now you’ll never have free gas!

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Transport level is absolutely a security vulnerability vector.

      TCP is absolutely low security if not configured correctly.

      I don’t know what it is you’re trying to say. I agree that this instance was probably security through obscurity, but to say that Bluetooth, and TCP are not security considerations is absolutely ridiculous.

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      • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Of course wired connection is inherently safer than wireless. There’s no question about it. And yes you can absolutely exploit at every layer of communication, but this here is not the case of exploiting Bluetooth as transport layer. It’s simply someone not configuring anything or adding any additional verification and just hoping no one finds out.

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s not how this works

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, brilliant. Another expert.

      Yes, it is how it works. Cheers.

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      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the kind of rigorous debate I’m here for.

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• ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least you can lock a usb port behind an access panel

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