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And once again, the weakest link in the security chain are humans…
Which humans are you blaming exactly?
I don't think it's fair to blame the users. They toggle bluetooth off and think it's off. How are they supposed to know "Bluetooth Off" means "Only some amount of Bluetooth is off"?
And I don't think designing a convincing phishing device is that much of a leap in logic. Bluetooth is off, so maybe the notification is legit from apple and needs authority for a connection?
If you blame the designers who left a backdoor in the bluetooth, then yea that's fair.
I was indeed blaming the end users. Yes, the bluetooth off thing on apple devices is super annoying and I don’t know why they still force it…
Form my understanding, this falls into the same category as phishing SMS or mails. You as a user need to know if this is legit or not.
The target audience for this are not people here on lemmy… it’s our parents, grandparents and more in generally people who are not tach savvy… and/or just don’t care.
This is why we need to make people aware of this and teach them how to respond, basically not to click on everything you see. I’m still doing this in my family and I’m very proud of my 80 year old grandma, that dodged a few very convincing scams. :)
And haha, I never thought of backdoors, but yes, they are also produced by humans.