Asklemmy

43821 readers

856 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

252

Why are there loads of unnamed bluetooth devices around me? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by PixeIOrange@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

75 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I live in a big city in the center. When i activate "Show bluetooth devices without names" in the developer settings of my android 13 phone, there appear loads of this devices. I have no clue what they are. Does anyone know? Are that the bluetooth nanobots of the vaxxinated people? (/s to last question!)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Every single node in any form of “smart home” networks including color changing light bulbs

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most of those use other networks - Zwave, Zigbee, or WiFi.

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many of them use Bluetooth or BLE for setup purposes and im sure some don’t bother to stop advertising

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

That makes sense.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My god the wifi lightbulbs make me want to cry, at least mine crypto or something with that heat source

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just how much power do you think those suckers are using in standby!?

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on how much you paid for them 😹 also I'm more worried about when they stop going into standby because they become the bastion of a botnet trying to get into my other machines

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I have to worry about my lamp pwning my clothes dryer?

What a future we live in!

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Iot ransomware: it'll burn your house down 😹