I requested my employer to purchase an APH Mantis for me (bluetooth keyboard with refreshable Braille). They are balking at the bluetooth because of security. It seems to me if they were really so concerned with bluetooth as a security risk, they wouldn’t have provided everyone in my office with laptops that have bluetooth but whatever.I know the Mantis can be purchased in government mode (bluetooth and wifi disabled by manufacturer) but I’m not interested in that because I have a specific use case for the bluetooth connectivity and connecting by USB drastically limits the usefulness of the device. Really all I want to know from you IT security peeps is what is the real security risk with bluetooth? I’m intending to argue I should be allowed to use bluetooth as a reasonable accomodation but I’d like to understand the security concern better. Please explain it to me like I’m 5.
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