Thursday, December 02, 2004

Bluesnarfing and Bluebugging: Another blow to privacy. You could be "screwed blue and tattooed" by "phreakers" before you ever get "toothed."

Wired 12.12: They've Got Your Number :
"Even tech-savvy types tend to keep their connections open. 'People have heard about 'toothing,' where strangers send each other flirtatious messages via Bluetooth,' he says. Hoping to get toothed, they risk an entirely different kind of penetration."

The wireless communications revolution - the exciting vista of unlimited global connectivity - has gremlins. Taking cell phone "cloning" to a whole new level, hackers find backdoors wide open in many mobile phones and other devices using the 2.4 gHz Bluetooth connectivity protocol. Although principally a European problem now, the scammers will soon follow the technology to our shores.

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