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Craig Gilchrist
Craig Gilchrist
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Craig Gilchrist

Craig Gilchrist is the Digital Director at Eden Agency (http://createdineden.com/), a small but mighty digital agency that is at the forefront of proximity marketing. His team is one of the first to release commercial iBeacon-powered apps in the world and currently boast over 1.5 million app downloads in multiple fields and have a perfectly balanced technical and creative team. Craig is based in North Yorkshire, England, and has been developing commercial software since graduating from the University of Teesside in 2004 with a BSc in Software Engineering and has been building apps for iOS since 2009. Craig is an avid reader and is always at the forefront of commercial technological developments. Other than mobile app development and digital marketing, Craig also has a keen interest in developing rich media, including gaming, children's interactive media, and a very keen interest in Unity and virtual reality with Oculus Rift.
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Beacon spoofing

As a developer, one of your primary concerns should be the vulnerability of your iBeacon profile. It's very easy for anyone equipped with a Bluetooth sniffer app to determine your beacon signatures and spoof them in their own app. After all, you've already made your iPhone act as a beacon during the course of this book.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 offered its visitors a treasure hunt powered by iBeacons and before the conference even began, the show had been hacked by the team at Make Magazine so that they could win the treasure hunt without even being at the event. Read more about Make's audacious hack at http://bit.ly/makehacks.

What Make Magazine did is downloaded the Android APK file (a compiled zip containing the Android app) and ran it through a decompiler to discover the beacon profiles used by CES.

CES treasure hunt winner

Defending against beacon spoofing

Ultimately, the best way to defend against people maliciously is to first decide whether or not you...

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Craig Gilchrist

Craig Gilchrist is the Digital Director at Eden Agency (http://createdineden.com/), a small but mighty digital agency that is at the forefront of proximity marketing. His team is one of the first to release commercial iBeacon-powered apps in the world and currently boast over 1.5 million app downloads in multiple fields and have a perfectly balanced technical and creative team. Craig is based in North Yorkshire, England, and has been developing commercial software since graduating from the University of Teesside in 2004 with a BSc in Software Engineering and has been building apps for iOS since 2009. Craig is an avid reader and is always at the forefront of commercial technological developments. Other than mobile app development and digital marketing, Craig also has a keen interest in developing rich media, including gaming, children's interactive media, and a very keen interest in Unity and virtual reality with Oculus Rift.
Read more about Craig Gilchrist

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