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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by istingray on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:37PM (#28406414)
Good context. Given that Bluetooth is the issue, what should we do instead? Some new standard? I've seen some headphones that offer a non-Bluetooth USB wireless dongle (Corsair)
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Re:Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features by mschuster91 on Friday September 03, 2021 @01:06PM (#28406753)
> Some new standard?

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

I'm not sure. From an implementation POV, re-starting wUSB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_USB) again would be an easy way out - for a lot of things that can be done over Bluetooth there are USB device classes and drivers already, so all that would be required on the OS side is support for a discovery/secure pairing mechanism.

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