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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by brndnmtthws on Monday July 31, 2017 @02:47PM (#14894810)
No thank you. I hope there's a simple way to disable this.
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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by spydum on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:00PM (#14894933)
Can't wait for the peer to peer mobile malware!
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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by blacksmith_tb on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:18PM (#14895076)
No need to wait, the recently announced Broadcom wifi vuln discussed here[1] can be used to spread to nearby devices (see the section titled "The First Wifi Worm" near the end).

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14859602

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