From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <559B5633.8000102@ahsoftware.de> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 06:31:47 +0200 From: Alexander Holler MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bastien Nocera , "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" CC: Szymon Janc Subject: Re: Why doesn't plugins/sixaxis.c set devices as Trusted? References: <1436188651.26954.9.camel@hadess.net> In-Reply-To: <1436188651.26954.9.camel@hadess.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 06.07.2015 um 15:17 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > Hey, > > I don't understand the reason why plugins/sixaxis.c doesn't set the > device as trusted when plugged in. It's because of security. If you trust a bluetooth device on Linux, you're trusting it for all services. In case of the sixaxis it means you're not only trusting it (the BT-MAC) as an input device, but also as a network device. Now if you trust any plugged in device which says it's a sixaxis, I would tell my arduino to say it's an sixaxis with a MAC from one of my BT-dongles to get a magic device which gives me wireless remote access on every linux box with BT when I plug it in once. That means you want user interaction, besides just plugging in a device. Alexander Holler