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Re:IoT Growing Faster Than the Ability to Defend It by cobookman on Sunday October 30, 2016 @07:49PM (#12833266)
wifi gives the device a direct connection to/from the internet. Bluetooth stops that outright, and the application code decides which Bytes get sent to the device.

But i guess if there was a patch to WiFi which gave it a LAN connection only then that'd be cool.

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Re:IoT Growing Faster Than the Ability to Defend It by TeMPOraL on Sunday October 30, 2016 @07:54PM (#12833285)
You mean from POV of the smartphone? Fair enough. Though you can route Internet over Bluetooth too. So forcing devices to use BT is not a solution simply because it'll make the devices to ask for Internet connection over BT.

The devices themselves should not need Internet connection, period.

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