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by mgazzer
2436 days ago
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Well, we do know that the best intentions around the browsers technology have paved the way to hell. Some of the other issues that crop up are: * Sites "adding" increased security mentions to their customers by profiling their connected bluetooth devices
* Is the browser only able to see connected devices and not the master list of devices?
* Bluetooth devices come in such a wide array of formats that I wouldn't want to ever offer the browser access to these tech (it's clunky enough through the OS most of the time) Last time I let this site access my devices and now it's watching me
* All those other options you listed below in another reply, are all high susceptible to a man in the middle attack, and all the sudden your headphones have been turned into a weapon, all because you clicked a link.
* Getting your laptop's battery drained even more because of some nefarious website preventing your devices from sleeping I feel like we need to build a pretty big moat around USB devices and Bluetooth devices, as they're often the easiest points of entry that can lead to further system compromise. |
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I think this mitigates these security concerns and improves security around Bluetooth devices generally.
Today if I want to do use the advanced configuration features of for my headphones I need to download a local application and install it. A local app from has way more unwanted permissions and tracking ability than a website. In the future it could be as simple as visiting their website and clicking allow when the site requests bluetooth access.