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Well this is an Android application, so it runs on an Android phone, which unlike those made by the fruit company, does NOT continually spew bluetooth beacons for the whole world to track. I think you might be overestimating the security risk associated with keeping bluetooth turned on.
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Android 13 does no longer allow to activate / deactivate Bluetooth automaticaly. We added a detection if Bluetooth is disabled and will show a button to open the settings when using the manual scan
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What would be the advantage of turning bluetooth off? Energy savings?
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What would be the advantage of turning bluetooth off? Energy savings?
It'd but in my case my Bluetooth is always off when I'm not using it
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Yes, but why don't you leave it switched on? What is the use case for switching it off when not in use?
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Security issues
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I'm talking as an attacker
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There's an API which would allow the app to turn on Bluetooth, but the documentation states that it should only be used to enable Bluetooth on purpose. So we could not use that for background scanning.
Might be an option to put a setting in the app: activate Bluetooth when doing background scanning.
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Related Issues (20)
- rename device HOT 3
- Add support for Kisha Umbrella beacons HOT 1
- Enable coasting for pinch-zooming in map view HOT 1
- App crashes on application startup after setup HOT 1
- Migrate gradle script to Kotlin DSL HOT 3
- Publish 2.1.0 on PlayStore and F-Droid HOT 1
- Feature Request: Allow naming of known devices. HOT 2
- Optionally include logging of generic Bluetooth devices in addition to known tracker types HOT 1
- Thank you!
- Scanning animation could be problematic for some users
- Playing sound on Tile trackers HOT 1
- Protecting screen from prying apps (screenshots, recent apps)
- Including in scanning also unknown devices (not Apple and DIY ones) HOT 2
- Make the donation process easier (to support development) HOT 1
- Adding autoscan toggle (off/on) in settings
- Set gps "safe" areas, and then set ON bluetooth only when I am outside of them
- Assign recognizable names to MAC addresses
- [Bug; low priority] UI colors on scanner tabs aren't properly contrasted
- [Bug] Duplicate readouts
- [Bug] Constant crashes since update
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