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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There seems to (at least theoretically) whitelist pairing-requests by mac-adress. Randomly hitting those few approved adresses consistently seems fairly unlikely: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/50121103 (how to do it on Samsung, wish I had this option as well)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but these are requests for new devices to pair

And most people aren’t going to bother with that white list

And even if they did, the attack can be tailored to the white list, because you don’t need to have a real Mac address, it can be spoofed