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Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US (www.wired.com)
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[–] manuremy@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

One good-ish reason is that In A Certain country the Bluetooth connections are monitored by Flock cameras and all, so you will be identified if you have Bluetooth headphones on in a public place. And that's likely to spread other places too eventually..

[–] cunnililgus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt broadcast done only manually? I.e. when you begin pairing? I guess it depends on device.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes however you can still see the signal and probably identify the mac address or something.

Bluetooth is not secure.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

This is a phenomenon that is easy to demonstrate with monitor apps for airtags, pervert glasses, and even Tesla automobiles (yes, they constantly send out a Bluetooth signal your phone can pick up).

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Does Flock have any technology to read radio waves coming from wires, or is that not a thing?

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mh true. An usb c Adapter with aux and usbc inside of the case of the phone would be cool I think. Then you can easily add it to the phone where most people won't need it. And you don't have to redesign the whole phone for the audio jack

[–] manuremy@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe, that sounds good imo. But those adapters break easily, so either it should be very good adapter or easily swapped design.