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by bandrami 3190 days ago
Wifi has encryption. Bluetooth means I'm broadcasting my audio stream to anybody who feels like snooping on me.
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Not quite.

Bluetooth was originally encrypted, but gained the option of non-encrypted channels with version 1.1.

On top of that Bluetooth use frequency hopping.

Until recently there was no real hardware for scanning/sniffing Bluetooth traffic, at least not anything easily available compared to a wifi card in promiscuous mode.