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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:23:31 +0200, Remko Lodder wrote:
 > > On 18 Sep 2017, at 15:06, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
 > > 
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I suppose Those Who Need To Know would be onto this, but apart from this
 > > newspaper article the other day, I've come across no other mention.
 > > 
 > > "Bluetooth flaw allows airborne viruses silently to attack
 > > internet-enabled devices"
 > > 
 > > <http://www.smh.com.au/technology/consumer-security/bluetooth-flaw-allows-airborne-viruses-silently-to-attack-internetenabled-devices-20170914-gyh5o0.html>
 > > 
 > > I know very little about Bluetooth, only recently starting to use it
 > > myself between a couple of phones, but the linked-to PDF paper I found
 > > interesting and informative, if not perhaps being overly alarmist?
 > > 
 > > <http://go.armis.com/hubfs/BlueBorne%20Technical%20White%20Paper.pdf>
 > > 
 > > Does this / might this / could this impact on FreeBSD's bt stack?  I
 > > flipped through https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bluetooth/
 > > 's last year pretty quickly, there's not a lot there.  After reading the
 > > paper I wouldn't dare try diving into this stack, I'd never get back ..
 > > 
 > > cheers, Ian
 > 
 > 
 > We believe that we are not affected at this stage.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Remko Lodder
 > on behalf of The FreeBSD Security Team

Thanks Remko.  Back to lurking ..

cheers, Ian