minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Undocumented Commands Found In Bluetooth Chip Manufactured in China Used By a Billion Devices.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 days agoThe article is a security company trying to hype their company with a theoretical attack that currently has no hypothetical way to be abused The article has an update now fixing the wording to “hidden feature” but, spoilers, every BT device has vendor specific commands. The documentation of the part just wasn’t complete and this companies “fuzzing” tool found some vendor commands that weren’t in the data sheet The China part just came from OP linkfedilink
The article is a security company trying to hype their company with a theoretical attack that currently has no hypothetical way to be abused
The article has an update now fixing the wording to “hidden feature” but, spoilers, every BT device has vendor specific commands.
The documentation of the part just wasn’t complete and this companies “fuzzing” tool found some vendor commands that weren’t in the data sheet
The China part just came from OP