The article is poorly written. "Scammers are using cellphone's Bluetooth option to hack the pump - and get it for free." is all the detail you get. My cellphone's Bluetooth doesn't have that option.
This sentence doesn't know if it's in the local paper or at a slam poetry reading:
"Paying at the pump is for chumps - when you can get gas for free - and illegal, but it didn’t stop a Detroit man from stealing almost 800 gallons of gas at the Shell at Eight Mile and Wyoming."
If you're on android, there's a bunch of bluetooth-serial apps that let you send more or less whatever raw data you want.
On iOS, there's nrf connect. Which is slightly more limited, but can still do BLE. I think there's other bluetooth-serial apps for iphones, but apple has a stick up their butt about bluetooth-classic not working super good unless the other device has a "made for i" chip/cert in it.
If either of these don't work well enough, ESP32s can be had for <$5 and can act as a bridge between your device and whatever you want to exploit.
> On iOS, there's nrf connect. Which is slightly more limited, but can still do BLE. I think there's other bluetooth-serial apps for iphones, but apple has a stick up their butt about bluetooth-classic not working super good unless the other device has a "made for i" chip/cert in it.
Is BLE why "modern" iphones don't have issues with android/3rd party devices/accessories? I remember a long time ago when an iPhone meant you could only share bluetooth with other Apple devices. My iPhone today doesn't seem to be like that.
You have to enable the DevTools, but that requires a $99 annual fee. If you can't afford gas, it's not likely you can afford that fee too. So it's kind of a perfect catch-22
Why would you have to enable devtools? Also, with just an unpaid icloud account, you can build, sign, and install apps to devices with an expiry time of one week.
jiscariot|2 years ago
"Paying at the pump is for chumps - when you can get gas for free - and illegal, but it didn’t stop a Detroit man from stealing almost 800 gallons of gas at the Shell at Eight Mile and Wyoming."
jacamera|2 years ago
extraduder_ire|2 years ago
On iOS, there's nrf connect. Which is slightly more limited, but can still do BLE. I think there's other bluetooth-serial apps for iphones, but apple has a stick up their butt about bluetooth-classic not working super good unless the other device has a "made for i" chip/cert in it.
If either of these don't work well enough, ESP32s can be had for <$5 and can act as a bridge between your device and whatever you want to exploit.
user_7832|2 years ago
Is BLE why "modern" iphones don't have issues with android/3rd party devices/accessories? I remember a long time ago when an iPhone meant you could only share bluetooth with other Apple devices. My iPhone today doesn't seem to be like that.
pineconewarrior|2 years ago
spelunker|2 years ago
dylan604|2 years ago
extraduder_ire|2 years ago
monkpit|2 years ago
Also, you assume that someone wouldn’t just sell the gas they stole, which is probably very much worth the small investment in tools.