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All wireless protocols can be fairly trivially DoS'ed, due to the nature of finite bandwidth and power limits.


However, do most wireless protocols cause listening devices to start using significantly more CPU and thus battery power? I'd expect DoS in most authenticated protocols to be impossible and essentially rejected at the hardware level (just like interference would be) with very minimal power impact.


I guess we need a new term for “power consumption” DoS




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