Researchers at Eurecom have developed six new attacks collectively named 'BLUFFS' that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions, allowing for device impersonation and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.
It’s also crazy how there is this push from all OEM to remove headphone jack and force consumers to use wireless earphones, further making the attack surface much wider.
A second USB port or headphone jack adds $1(US) to the manufacturing cost, if even that. Can’t cut into the corporation’s massive profits by even a little. Nope, can’t have that.
It’s also crazy how there is this push from all OEM to remove headphone jack and force consumers to use wireless earphones, further making the attack surface much wider.
Even now I think we should’ve added a second USB Port if we were going to remove the headphone jack.
A second USB port or headphone jack adds $1(US) to the manufacturing cost, if even that. Can’t cut into the corporation’s massive profits by even a little. Nope, can’t have that.