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Bluetooth Gains Direct Internet Access, Security Enhancements

Posted by Soulskill on from the internet-of-teeth dept.

jfruh writes: The Bluetooth spec never quite became the worldbeater it was billed as, but it's aiming to become indispensible to the Internet of Things. Updates to the spec make it possible for low-powered Bluetooth devices to gain direct access to the Internet, and, perhaps more importantly, make those devices a lot harder to hack.

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  1. Re:How ? It doesn't have 3G / WiFi. Needs a router by Matheus · · Score: 5, Informative

    DRTFA and BRTFS but I can give you an few lil tidbits about this:

    1) Everything connected to the internet is connected to a router somewhere along the line... that's not interesting.
    2) There are a lot of ways to connect to the internet that have absolutely nothing to do with WiFi or 3G.
    3) Right now a Bluetooth device can connect to another device. That device may provide a variety of services for said Bluetooth device including providing network connectivity BUT that device isn't really connected to the Internet itself. The new spec provides this device to be connected "more directly" to the net as in it will have its own IP address. The router that it is connecting to supporting the BT4.2 protocol is really no different from the WiFi access point your WiFi equipped device is talking to. Just need to add to the alphabet soup: a,b,g,n,bt