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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The comma makes this title read very weird.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know Christopher Walken was into netsec.

[–] can 10 points 3 months ago

I can't seem, to parse it for the life of me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I would have called this a comma splice, but apparently what I was taught that is - just a comma incorrectly inserted into a sentence - is not the entirety of what a comma splice is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who uses Bluetooth passcodes?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are used for most pairing sequences, but we don't type them in anymore. They are used more to validate that it's you that are connecting two devices.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In other words, this vulnerability isn’t that big of a deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe? There are a ton of shitty BT implementations in the wild that will never get patched. This does seem quirky at first glance, but could just as easily affect millions of vehicles, as an example.

If I was so inclined, I would camp out in a busy parking lot with an antenna just to see what I could find.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

This vuln is not new, it was published 3.5 years ago: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26558