Is it safe to keep Bluetooth always enabled in my smartphone?

Posted by randomString1 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:42PM
from the self-post dept.

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Re:Is it safe to keep Bluetooth always enabled in my smartph... by warrenm on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:23PM (#14871437)

It will drain your battery

And, depending on the model, OS release, and your preferences/settings, might be open to unsupervised pairing / file system spelunking

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Re:Is it safe to keep Bluetooth always enabled in my smartph... by randomString1 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:39PM (#14871521)

That's what worries me. I want to keep a smartwatch paired with my phone all the time so I can get silent notifications.

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Re:Is it safe to keep Bluetooth always enabled in my smartph... by warrenm on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:20PM (#14875386)

If your phone is good, it will only pair when you tell it to

Some older Android, Windows Phones, possibly iOS (not 100% sure), and Blackberry had some exploits around Bluetooth

More-or-less any current phone (with current updates) should be safe from that.

Key being: it needs to be kept up-to-date

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