Collaborate Disseminate
[Wayne Venables], like many of us, found himself sitting more than usual the past few months. Armed with a Bluetooth-enabled under desk exercise bike, he quickly found the app to …read more Continue reading Pedaling Away Under The Cover Of Your Desk
Looking for a hands-free way to page through sheet music on an iPad, [The_Larch] came up with this simple Bluetooth input device based on the ESP32. The microcontroller just needed …read more Continue reading The Beat Goes On With this ESP32 Page Turner
Some time ago, Bluetooth was hit by a severe exploit (KNOB attack) that rendered its encryption pretty much useless. Publishers like the German Heise summarized it in an article* as an issue in the firmware of Bluetooth radio affecting BR/… Continue reading Is Bluetooth low energy (BLE) still secure?
If you’re a reader of Hackaday, then you’ve almost certainly encountered an Espressif part. The twin microcontroller families ESP8266 and ESP32 burst onto the scene and immediately became the budget-friendly …read more Continue reading New Part Day: Espressif ESP32-C6
Trackers like Tile or Pixie have been helping us find lost keys and wallets for years now, but they aren’t all that precise beyond “it’s within Bluetooth range.” Samsung has now unveiled the Galaxy SmartTag+, the first tracker to use the more accurate … Continue reading Samsung’s more precise SmartTag+ uses AR to guide you to lost items
When you bump into someone in the workplace or at your local coffee shop, you might call that an “encounter.” That’s the scientific term for it, too. As part of urgent efforts to fight COVID-19, a science is rapidly developing for mea… Continue reading Encrypted method that measures encounters could slow down or prevent future pandemics
While the PlayStation 3 and Gamecube come from opposing sides of the aisle, and in fact aren’t even from the same generation of hardware, this DIY adapter built by [Jeannot] …read more Continue reading Bluetooth PS3 Controllers Modernize the Nintendo GameCube
Luxury audio brand Master & Dynamic has announced a follow up to its MW07 true wireless earphones. The MW08 model brings a number of firsts for the company, including active noise cancellation.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearables, TechnologyTags: Earpho… Continue reading Master & Dynamic launches its first ANC true wireless earphones
One of the biggest reasons why people consider wired earphones over Bluetooth ones is that…
For more visit TheWindowsClub.com. Continue reading Fix Bluetooth sound delay in Windows 10
Interesting research: “Who Can Find My Devices? Security and Privacy of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System“:
Abstract: Overnight, Apple has turned its hundreds-of-million-device ecosystem into the world’s largest crowd-sourced location tracking network called offline finding (OF). OF leverages online finder devices to detect the presence of missing offline devices using Bluetooth and report an approximate location back to the owner via the Internet. While OF is not the first system of its kind, it is the first to commit to strong privacy goals. In particular, OF aims to ensure finder anonymity, untrackability of owner devices, and confidentiality of location reports. This paper presents the first comprehensive security and privacy analysis of OF. To this end, we recover the specifications of the closed-source OF protocols by means of reverse engineering. We experimentally show that unauthorized access to the location reports allows for accurate device tracking and retrieving a user’s top locations with an error in the order of 10 meters in urban areas. While we find that OF’s design achieves its privacy goals, we discover two distinct design and implementation flaws that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, which could deanonymize users. Apple has partially addressed the issues following our responsible disclosure. Finally, we make our research artifacts publicly available…
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