Faking iBeacon signals

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iBeacons are really really simple devices. […] Cloning prevention is hard to implement, as there is no connection happening between client and device that would allow the device to uniquely identify each mobile phone, or the other way round.

Clone-a-beacon: iBeacon and the proof of location issue →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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