Phones and laptops ship with a feature that sends files to nearby devices over the air, with no cables, accounts, or prior pairing. Apple calls its version AirDrop. Google and Samsung call theirs Quick Share. Both run inside privileged background services that wake when another device comes within wireless range, and both read a stack of serialized data formats sent by devices they have never met. More than five billion active devices run one of … More →
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