IOS 17.2 cut off Flipper Zero users running the Xtreme third-party firmware from mass-spamming popups at iPhones.

Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones::IOS 17.2 cut off Flipper Zero users running the Xtreme third-party firmware from mass-spamming popups at iPhones.

  • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    It’s Bluetooth here, and possibly. Apple was handling a class of pairing attempts poorly. Android could do the same thing. It currently seems like that’s not the case, and there are a lot of eyes looking at what’s open source.

    • batmaniam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know the ins and outs. But I have a flipper and an android. It looks like the issue is on the UI more than overwhelming the hardware like a DDOS. My android gets a bunch of bogus connect attempts for random Bluetooth headphones that don’t exisit, but there’s enough time in between each to go in and turn off Bluetooth if you wanted. The iPhone made it so you just always had one, so you couldn’t do anything else with the phone.

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      Maybe, but Android keeps rewriting its Bluetooth stack from scratch

      Android’s current Bluetooth stack has only been around for like 2.5 years

      So it’s also less battle tested, probably, although less likely to have memory corruption bugs