I revised the title many times. Am I giving the impact breadth of what it could be without veering into click-bait?
Bluetooth Low Energy MESH Network, it is built into the OS without any noted country exemption. Although there be will many air gaps, that is not what I mean.
Some questions that came to mind reading it?
- Can China even pull it out of the OS for good measure, hack it?
- Even with topology of some enable, others disable, others wanting security will be reading bluetooth MAC addresses of un-consenting, disabled, for tracking of others whom have enabled, even if they are not being targeted. See below screenshots from the Internet Engineering Task Force presentation.
- Is the Bluetooth freqz and combinatory fields bio-active in any regard of it's function? Do plants stay healthy around "high intake" Bluetooth whatever that may be?
- They mentioned other devices and Industry being involved, how many devices to we expect to also use this protocol in the future?
- If we mapped it out, all of these devices thus operating, mapped out of the whole network with a Supercomputer, real-time, how much energy do you think it would be? How many BLE pulses per second, in a busy metropolitan area?
- Who pushed for this TRACKING NETWORK I will be partcipating in whether I like or NOT (uptake)?
- Where was the pre-planning market and socio-economic research on this presented beforehand?
- If entities very intent on tracking you, will just disable/refuse the protcol, then why instead would Apple and Alphabet whom introduced the vulnerability, just ...make thier own implementation secure?
So we're going to skip this useless marketing-speak on 9to5 Mac - Here’s how the new Cross-Platform Tracking Detection works in iOS 17.5
As far as I can tell, there is nothing that says it doesn't perform assessment of the MAC address in range, all of them, for "your" security of course. In fact, it seems in line with what they want to accomplish: Track all the trackers? Later safeguard them with a "Safefilter" online database check when Phone starts?
Did I get it wrong?
Yeah you're obviously beyond reason and we're speaking across different levels of intellect here. Bringing up NOCs shows you're entry level, despite how many years of experience you have. Find my phone is a network because the phone which has cellular capabilities reports that to Apple/Google.
It wasn't my intention to start a dick measuring contest here but since it's on the table, im a six figure(deep into six figures) engineer at a fortune 10 company. Your 25+ years of CompTIA A+ experience mean nothing to me. You're talking to a CCIE.
No one with any amount of intellect would call something communicating at layer two a "network", though anything that transfers data between two devices can technically be called a network, "networking" is being able to communicate with OTHER networks.