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Yay, even better opportunities for government and corporations to track my whereabouts through my Bluetooth signature. ;) Tongue-in-cheek, well mostly but not entirely .. I do appreciate e.g. accurate travel times, yet refuse to believe they won't take it to the next step. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/how-vicroads-tracks-your-e...
I've been really fascinated recently by whipping out my smartphone in public and using a Bluetooth LE explorer app to look at what's being advertised, and it's brilliant. We are all constantly surrounded by devices which are screaming data about themselves everywhere they go. Bluetooth 5 seems to increase the range of LE communications, but since I'm almost sure we're going to have some horrible public hack of one of…
> We are all constantly surrounded by devices which are screaming data about themselves everywhere they go. Perhaps you would like to explain what the problem with this is? Broadcasting presence in itself is not a security hole - unless you think "Do not broadcast SSID" is a WiFi AP security feature (it's not). If WiFi can be secured (with devices that "scream data about themselves"), why would Bluetooth be any diffe…
Isn't it time for uncompressed A2DP audio at last? It would solve both quality (generation loss) and latency issues.
aptX already allows high-quality audio streaming over BT and has both a lossless and a low-latency mode. Device support is also already here, I saw a few last time I was in an electronics store.
What will it take for wireless keyboards and mice to use Bluetooth? Most ship with their own custom dongle. A single port MacBook, for example, doesn't really make sense until Bluetooth devices become more popular.
It's a solved problem I believe since BT LE (low energy) I believe. Now it's just a matter of market adoption.
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> We are all constantly surrounded by devices which are screaming data about themselves everywhere they go. It's also terrible that people, and their clothing, are so detectable in the visible light spectrum. Where's the 'tarnkappe' when you need it? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak_of_invisibility ) Also appreciate the "will be marketed as 'Bluetooth 5.' [no dot zero]". Sounds like a band name, or a gang. Good…
It's also terrible that people, and their clothing, are so detectable in the visible light spectrum. I wasn't completely clear above, but there are a couple of differences: - Your clothing doesn't contain unique identifiers (yet!) :) - The devices seem to often be happy to broadcast their information in the clear. Your clothes don't advertise your position or heart rate to the whole world either!
What will it take for wireless keyboards and mice to use Bluetooth? Most ship with their own custom dongle. A single port MacBook, for example, doesn't really make sense until Bluetooth devices become more popular.
I've also found that many proprietary dongle keyboards work over USB-OTG on Android phones.
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It's also terrible that people, and their clothing, are so detectable in the visible light spectrum. I wasn't completely clear above, but there are a couple of differences: - Your clothing doesn't contain unique identifiers (yet!) :) - The devices seem to often be happy to broadcast their information in the clear. Your clothes don't advertise your position or heart rate to the whole world either!
They do "broadcast" where you shop (if someone knows where your clothes are from), what kind of job you have, your social class and many other informations about the person.
Isn't it time for uncompressed A2DP audio at last? It would solve both quality (generation loss) and latency issues.
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What app have you been using?
LightBlue Explorer – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/lightblue-explorer-bluetooth... I have no idea if it's particularly good in comparison to others, but I downloaded it to debug a Bluetooth LE device I was building and it was a pretty straightforward UI.
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> We are all constantly surrounded by devices which are screaming data about themselves everywhere they go. It's also terrible that people, and their clothing, are so detectable in the visible light spectrum. Where's the 'tarnkappe' when you need it? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak_of_invisibility ) Also appreciate the "will be marketed as 'Bluetooth 5.' [no dot zero]". Sounds like a band name, or a gang. Good…
It's also terrible that people, and their clothing, are so detectable in the visible light spectrum. I wasn't completely clear above, but there are a couple of differences: - Your clothing doesn't contain unique identifiers (yet!) :) - The devices seem to often be happy to broadcast their information in the clear. Your clothes don't advertise your position or heart rate to the whole world either!
But your face does...