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	Benson	2008-08-15 , 23:25
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Originally Posted by johnkzin

With IR, last I checked, you don't trust any device automatically, when something wants to get access to your files, it _has_ to ask. And in order to get that far, it _has_ to establish line of sight with your IR port. In a closed office, or in your pocket, that's pretty difficult with IR. Not difficult at all with BT.

Your discussion of access control is somewhat ambiguous; I can't tell if you're referring to a user level or a technical level.
Obviously, on a technical level, any device attempting to communicate with a device over any link has to "ask" in some way.

OTOH, if you mean on a user level, you'd have to be ******ed or running ******ed software to "trust any device automatically"; if irda implementations make it impossible to have trusted devices, that's a software detail, and it would be pretty straightforward to permit access automatically.

Line-of-sight is definitely an issue, but it seems rather limited in application, so I can't see the justification for including it in stock hardware. A mini/micro-USB OTG dongle should do handily, I'd think...

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