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Matthew Green

@matthew_d_green

I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. Mastodon at [email protected] and BlueSky at https://t.co/GI4QlxYTdk. Bluecheck not my decision ;)

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So from what I can tell any app that gets Bluetooth permissions on Android or iOS has nearly-unfiltered access to scan any BLE advertisements. “Location” permissions cause the OS to filter two types of beacon, but every other advertisement is available to the app. Is that right?

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