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TFW the movie starts, and people in the row in front of you wont put their phones down…
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I wont apologize for the terror. Fuck you if you do this shit.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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How do you know you're hacking the right phones? What's the insecure part that you're able to hack? I only know memetic hacking (whispering at them angrily to turn off their phones)
Unfortunately, its sort of a buckshot approach. If youre within 30 foot of me, when im using the internal bluetooth radio, but within 125 foot when i use an external add-on bluetooth radio, its gonna mess with your phone.
It wont bork phones permanently, and if you just have your phone in your pocket like you should at a movie theater , you wont even notice it happening, and when i stop, your phone will just go back to working again. But if you have your phone out, in your hand and someone does this, you'll notice. And it is more or less unstoppable unless you turn off bluetooth.
I dont go overboard with it because it is an undeserved PITA if you don’t understand whats going on. Ive used it a handful of times, a few times on my own phone to verify it works, and a few times on my kids just to screw with em.
Also, im not hacking in to anyones phones or anything serious, its just spamming bluetooth connection messages, if you have an iphone youll get messages saying a pair of airpods, or an apple tv, or an apple device wants to connect, Android says youve got a new android device trying to connect, Samsung phone specifically get earbud connection messages, samsung watch connection messages, and android auto connect messages.
people use bluetooth?
Fuck yeah. Watches, earbuds, car audio connections, their fave speaker, etc etc.
9 of 10 have it enabled by default.
lmao
I guess it's less illegal to spoof bluetooth connections than to spoof calls/sms?
Idk I fuckin hate my phones they're a devil in your pocket
Im unsure of which is more illegal than the other, but you've probably got it right.
All I know is dont DIY radio transmissions or something
I do goof around with SDR’s but im RX only. Incidentally, im studying for my technicians license so ill be a big boy one day, but not yet.
Yeah, I'm a bit of a Rx head myself
I was out of my depth in this conversation several messages back, but hot damn was this fun to read
idk what you all are out there doing but I'm pretty sure I support it - keep them theatres dark, you magnificent beings 🎉🎉🎉
Incredibly fucked up. Cabled headphones are better than wireless 100%, nowhere near worth all the trouble, do not @ me
Insane to me that people have BT on constantly, that's a battery drainer I'm pretty sure.
100p, I absolutely refuse to buy wireless headphones.
Why the fuck should I have to charge headphones?
Batteries also don't last forever either.
That is pretty cool
Ok so it's just annoying toast popups? I was a bit confused about how BLE was gonna jack with someone's phone but I guess I can see the use case if they are scrolling FB and suddenly get bombed with a bunch of notifications. Somewhat harmless annoyance in a "tit for tat" sort of way.
This coupled with one of those IR blaster things can be fun at a bar maybe lol.
Thats it exactly.
And it does have an IR blaster on it. Frankly youd be surprised the amount of things you can control with IR now of days.
Airconditioners, fans, school whiteboards, tvs, stereo receivers, it has an absurdly comprehensive IRdb.
Am I correct that you can scan in hotel cards and such too?
Damn, that's really cool. I'm going to look into getting something like it.
This is a great reason for why I always turn off my Bluetooth when not using it and an even greater reason why I never take out my phone at movie theaters, but even more importantly people regularly taking out phones at movie theaters is exactly a reason why I never go to movie theaters anymore. You're doing praxis.