> This gives me chills, the shared clipboard also uses this protocol, right? This means that everything we copy goes through the network via Bluetooth without encryption and can be captured by any Bluetooth sniffer?
The shared clipboard uses this protocol?... on what basis is this claim plausible?
> The individual messages are encrypted much like messages in iMessage are. After the devices are paired, each device generates a symmetric 256-bit AES key that gets stored in the device’s keychain. This key can encrypt and authenticate the BLE advertisements that communicate the device’s current activity to other iCloud-paired devices using AES256 in GCM mode, with replay protection measures.
[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secf78dbe639/...
To be clear, it's a comment on the article, in the public comments section appended to the article. The comment was not made by the article author.
It only works between devices signed in with the same Apple ID
The article shows the author holds some grudges against Apple. Those grudges probably influence their judgement.