Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Fix to auto accept pairing request for no MITM case

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On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Hirenkumar Tandel <hirent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> So basically this changes the policy from rejecting pairings when an agent is not registered to accepting them in case it's a just-works pairing? I'm not convinced we want to do such a policy change that relaxes security in this regard.
>
> Do you have an actual product use case for this? What's the background and reasoning behind it?
>
> [Hiren]A use case is for chrome book, for user not logged in case, Bluetooth is working at this time, but default-agent is not registered, however user will expect  Bluetooth to work for certain simple devices like mouse.
>

That is NOT a use case that is valid for a Chromebook. We do NOT want
to accept random Bluetooth pairings without a user logged in to
confirm.

Scott
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