Chapter 9. iBeacon Security – Understanding the Risks

The final chapter of this book is about understanding the security issues surrounding iBeacon for you as both a developer and a consumer. If you've followed all of the tutorials in this book, then you've already got a good understanding of what security issues you might face as a developer. This chapter gives more depth to that understanding.

I thought a rundown of some security considerations together with a vocabulary of common security concerns of users would be a great way to finish off the book.

We've covered some of the security risks in Chapter 1, Welcome to iBeacon, so we may go over some old ground but since this chapter is entirely dedicated to security, we'll cover the topics in more ...

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