Meh. So realistic attack would be that you know someone you want to track has one of those 17 models (which is hard to tell by just looking at the headphones) and never paired it with Android and he carries them everywhere. You force-pair and now you can track them. It's pretty silly as a random attack because why would you track a random person. It's silly to use it to record conversations because from 15 m there are easier methods to do it. I would say the risk that this will be used to actually track/record someone is low.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Did anyone else get a "page not found" error when trying to see the list of affected headphones?
Edit: spelling.
The website works on my end
I clicked on your link. Same thing. I'm using duck such go. Wonder if that's why.
Affected*
Damn it. I knew that too. Thanks for pointing it out.