Breaking BLE Beacons For Fun But Mostly Profit

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons introduced a novel technology that enables devices to advertise their presence in an area by constantly broadcasting a static unique identifier. The aim was to enhance services with location and context awareness. Although the hardware components of typical BLE Beacons systems are able to support adequate cryptography, the design and implementation of most publicly available BLE Beacon protocols appears to...