i said the mac address issue was patched now. so it’s no longer an issue. i figured that issue because i noticed a major issue with handshakes using a “private mac” address on my own home network. it’s been an issue for proton and others. it’s simply a factor of what the phone is pretending to be, and in order to properly secure that, it has to know the truth of what’s it protecting. at least the version apple is offering and it wasn’t “fooled” so to speak. i’m being less technical in my words because if i said this in complete technical vocabulary you wouldn’t understand. that’s not condescending, it’s just would need to encompass how a vpn establishes its privacy and that’s so layered it’s too much for me to just type it.
you are asking me questions, but you know about ble? it’s frustrating and confusing that you think it’s a “great feat” for them to be able to do this. i don’t know what used to sniff ble, but i can assure you that nothing i’m saying hasn’t been a guess. i tested this many ways. i was unhappy that it’s possible, it’s mostly because people don’t know and if they did, they would be against it because it’s not good for security. at all. it was never intended to be used this way, but the folks at apple decided they could this and keep it safe. a special way of encryption that rotates keys around a bunch 
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it’s been tiring to try to raise awareness about this, but to be questioned about it, when the resources to look this up at your disposal, makes me very cranky indeed.
if you actually knew what sniffing meant to a phone vs blurtooth or a usb ble beacon with a 4000m range that also reads/writes eddystone and ibeacon parameters and such and you can spoof any device. even reprogram it without the user knowing. this is serious to me. i try so hard to raise awareness but mostly people have no idea what is happening. do you own an alexa device? does it offer to find your trackers now? is your phone on the list? try using that with the phone off. like the chip in your cc, even if a phone is off, or a tile, and it has bluetooth, and external device can find it with its own power emissions and read/write them like they had power. it’s like rfid that talks to devices and the device users don’t see what’s happening.
why didn’t apple announce this in a big way? this amazing “new feature”. they are planning to make their own versions of little ble tags and stickers for the find my now instead people using a tile. why did it come enabled? why use the word offline to describe a phone that can be found even if it’s powered off? do you see how the language confused you?
BLE info is readable from anything that uses bluetooth. powered on, or powered off.
how do you imagine i learned so much about this? a lot of research and a lot of experiments. i’m self taught 100%. i started teaching myself less than a year ago. there’s so many articles that explain a new vulnerability with BLE everyday. They just announced one for android phones today.
if you dont know them, learn the advanced search operators. you’ll never find what you really want to know if you just search google plainly. 50k results isn’t helping… you can narrow down to 5 or 50. if you even try to google the word ble, it’ll switch it to blu, unless you use quotations. that’s an operator.
disagreeing with someone over an opinion is one thing, disagreeing with someone over facts is entirely different. i don’t have opinions on science, that why the scientific method works so well.
I’ll never understand why I am able to know this, learn it, talk about it, share an article, and get someone to tell me they don’t believe i’m correct. believe what you want, but that’s not science. research is science. you’re not researching, you’re asking me while also telling me i’m wrong. why would anyone be patient with your approach? why didn’t you just google it? why didn’t you just find out for yourself? i don’t know. but if everyone needed to be spoon fed this stuff, i’d be charging for it. the info is free. check youtube if you want to see it in action. again, why ask me, debate me, and do ZERO research?
because. you want to be right. you don’t care about being accurate. if you did, you would research it yourself extensively before even considering challenging what i said. i would never do what you did. someone says something i don’t “think” is right, bet your ass i’m checking twice to make sure i got it right before i open my mouth.
as far as social engineering goes, the whole point in my case was for you vent it all out while also STILL NOT HAVE DONE ANY RESEARCH YOURSELF. SNIFFING GLUE ISNT GOING TO HELP YOU. READING AND RESEARCH IS ALWAYS THE BEST OPTION IF YOU WANT TO BE ACCURATE. IF YOU WANT TO BE right, you do what you did. nothing. just whine.
Go google it. teach me something about it. then we can talk. otherwise i’m interested in that you can’t imagine the feat… of something that’s so easily imaginable, it’s already existing and used, just never meant in this way.
DO YOU HEAR ME DOWN THERE?
yeah you do. social engineering in this case was making sure you’re fully aware of the label “i cant teach myself, so i’ll guess and argue with someone about that did teach themselves.”
95% if your post is whining. 95% of mine were about information. i adjusted my percentage to match yours, and now i’m at 50%. i’m honestly just too tired today to even care. but to wake to (crickets)… suggesting i ghosted because i had no reply, is all in your head, that does the thinking and arguing and NO RESEARCH. NONE. NOTHING SCIENTIFIC ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK. Are you like 13 or 14 years old? Do you need a bottle. Are you fired up now? good. go learn the advanced operators and help yourself. i’m out of bottles.