Comment on Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones

A_A@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s Bluetooth here, and possibly. Apple was handling a class of pairing attempts poorly. Android could do the same thing. It currently seems like that’s not the case, and there are a lot of eyes looking at what’s open source.

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  • batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know the ins and outs. But I have a flipper and an android. It looks like the issue is on the UI more than overwhelming the hardware like a DDOS. My android gets a bunch of bogus connect attempts for random Bluetooth headphones that don’t exisit, but there’s enough time in between each to go in and turn off Bluetooth if you wanted. The iPhone made it so you just always had one, so you couldn’t do anything else with the phone.

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe, but Android keeps rewriting its Bluetooth stack from scratch

    Android’s current Bluetooth stack has only been around for like 2.5 years

    So it’s also less battle tested, probably, although less likely to have memory corruption bugs

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