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by lmz 3 days ago
Standardizing a non proprietary chat protocol over BT would be a pretty interesting prospect.

Who would advance it? Can you even get multiple parties to agree on what's in it? Is there any identity required? What's there to stop this being another "Bluejacking" vector but now with dick pics?

Given all of the above the proprietary route seems inevitable, even for protocols over Bluetooth.

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Apple (sort of) did it, with (proprietary) Airdrop, and yes, it was "Bluejacking, but with dick pics."

AFAIK, they changed policy a few years ago, so that even if you set discoverability to "everybody", it changes back to "contacts only" after a few minutes.