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Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations (www.heise.de)

submitted 8 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Bluetooth chipset installed in popular models from major manufacturers is vulnerable. Hackers could use it to initiate calls and eavesdrop on devices.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle

No. Fuck that. My PC has a headphone jack, and I use it. I don't have a bunch of extra USB-C ports on the front of my computer. Modern phones have plenty of spaces for headphone jacks. They could put it there, they just don't want to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

phones are already very full and dense, and a headphone jack is a very large component. plus, the Bluetooth is simply part of the small SoC, it's a microscopic size. That doesn't mean I prefer Bluetooth, but it makes some sense.

[–] corsicanguppy 1 points 1 hour ago

I used a USB connection through my KVM to connect to one computer or the next. But it's just something to plug my headphones into the 3.5mm jack.

Since it never gets unplugged, it doesn't get lost; unlike all those "just have this snowflake dongle in one of all of your stuff so it can get lost monthly and you can buy another" people.

Again: my startac 7800 had a jack and it was tiny. Apple and Samsung have NO EXCUSE.