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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 11:07:49 JST Rich Felker

   Haven't confirmed this works, but on Android,

   setprop bluetooth.profile.avrcp.target.enabled false

   supposedly nukes the extremely obnoxious capability of bluetooth audio devices to send media/volume control input events.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 11:11:16 JST Rich Felker

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     If this works, I still need to figure out how to make it persist across reboot, I think...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 11:52:24 JST Rich Felker

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     In any case, it's so utterly stupid that this is not a per-device setting. And failure to make it an opt-in setting is a security bug. It's accepting input from a device potentially untrusted/unsafe for input. Especially if the pairing is weak, an attacker can probably spoof the device to send input events to your phone.

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     Demi Marie Obenour (alwayscurious@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 17:56:15 JST Demi Marie Obenour

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     @dalias How does one run that?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 21:54:46 JST Rich Felker

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     • Demi Marie Obenour

     @alwayscurious Via adb shell or shell on the phone. Not sure if it needs root, probably not.