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Re:Bluetooth 5 by digi_owl on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:32PM (#11864425)
The basic problem with 2, is that until nfc became commonplace doing pairing was either by pin not at all. So many devices still accept 0000 or 1234 because they have so way to input a pin, and is too old to use nfc pairing.
Re:Bluetooth 5 by matthewmacleod on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:37PM (#11864478)
Even then, quite a lot of Bluetooth LE devices don't have support for authentication as such. How to you authenticate a connection to a heart monitor, for example? It doesn't have any buttons!