Bluejacking is HOT

[Jumper]

Some guys here who also have experience with bluejacking? Or being bluejacked?

[Tenoq]

This reminds me of wifi when it first came out - drive-by hacking. Although I did think Bluetooth was kinda semi-secure. Obviously not!

[MitzEclipse]

I don't see what the point of bluejacking is - you'd have to be within 30ft of the person, couldn't they basically see you do it!!

[Sid]

Originally posted by MitzEclipse
I don't see what the point of bluejacking is - you'd have to be within 30ft of the person, couldn't they basically see you do it!!

Not if you do it in a cinema or crowded place.
Anyways, Bluejacking is fun for the first few times but then gets pretty boring.

[Michael]

And what can you actually do to them that they wouldn't have to allow explicitly?

You won't be able to dial out over their GPRS or anything. I can't remember ever testing a phone that didn't require confirmation before accepting a connection from an unknown device.

[Jumper]

Contacts can be send through BT

[Michael]

Yeah, if the remote phone accepts the contact.

Is there anything you can actually do that doesn't require the remote person to explicitly give permission?

[Steven]

Think Michael is right, what can you do without being paired to the other device?
Yes, you can search from your phone for other BT devices, but that's where the "fun" ends imho ;)

[bart]

you don't need to get paired! you just send stuff. backgrounds, themes, contacts, othere stuff. nokia and siemens can be bluejacked very very very easy

[kangfu]

Ive had conversations (over sent contacts) with people in other rooms (either upstair/downstairs) through bluetooth. Gets boring though ...

If you could make calls, use GPRS etc of the other phone via bluetooth, THEN you have yourself a decent passtime! :p (albeit a quite illegal one)

[jim]

Hi guys. I just have a question regarding the use of bluetooth to make a call.

If someone is using a bluetooth phone & headset to make a call can anyone else listen into the conversation if they also have a bluetooth headset and are within bluetooth range

[Michael]

Originally posted by jim
If someone is using a bluetooth phone & headset to make a call can anyone else listen into the conversation if they also have a bluetooth headset and are within bluetooth range

No, they can't.

The link between the headset and the phone is private as the two devices are paired.

The audio is actually digitized and sent as data, it isn't like a normal cordless phone that transmits analog signals that can be picked up by any basic receiver and played for your listening pleasure.

[jquirke]

Bluetooth security is still something to be wary of. This reminds me of a recent situation - I was using my notebook PC at one of my university's main 'social areas'. I was attempting to access my 7650 in my pocket via the Bluetooth explorer, but not only did I find that phone, but at least half a dozen other "3650s" "T610", "6310i" etc, within just one area.

Now I'm fairly familiar with the Bluetooth 1.1 specs and it is a reasonably secure technology. The problem is not necessarily the technology, but the implementation. If a certain phone manufacturer (hint,hint) were to implement a buggy Bluetooth stack, which had possible security flaws, then that is a serious concern. It's theoretically possible for malicious code to take advantage of these exploits, and thus spread like virii. All you need to do was walk into a crowded place - a railway station, etc.

Originally posted by Michael
No, they can't.

The link between the headset and the phone is private as the two devices are paired.

The audio is actually digitized and sent as data, it isn't like a normal cordless phone that transmits analog signals that can be picked up by any basic receiver and played for your listening pleasure.

This varies. Encryption is optional in a particular Bluetooth connection. Not only that, but although the system is frequency hopping, any slave device in the piconet is aware of the hopping sequence (which is calculated based on the master's CLK, and UAP/LAP (address), information that is easily discovered in a bluetooth search)

[jellyellie]

I find bluejacking quite funny considering that it is quite a new thing therefore not many people know what it is. It's best if you can spot who you are bluejacking, take a picture of them and send it to them. You don't have to be paired to do this.

It's cool too because noone ever suspects me... too young.

[rhedgehog]

Its not so much the bluejacking i am worried about, its the guys with linux on their lappys running bluesniff! this and other programs on linux allow you to connect to phones that have their bluetooth turned on but not visible/discoverable.

they can also allow you to download someone's contacts direct to your lappy without having to pair! and some of them mean you can hijack someones GPRS connection for yourself.

Not encouraging!

thankfully not many people are going to bother doing it so it's not too bad!

[sean]

hehe it is kinda fun. Sman for the P800 has built in Bluejacking tools. YOU really are limited though. You can send annoying "Buy SonyEricsson" Vcards to Nokia users. Can't really do anything bad. This makes for a relatively harmless thing to do.

[JaY]

Anyone know if the N6600 can "bluejack" someone?

[omie]

Hi there,
Yes it can rather nicely....................have tried it works a treat....
Cheersx
Ps you can even exchange MMc cards between the Nok 6600 if one should get to know the other owner well !!!!

[supadave]

If the phone has the option to send a Contact through bluetooth you can BlueJack...

Just an FYI the 3650 has an option to disable the broadcast of your phone w/ Bluetooth enabled... so, you can bluejack someone but they can't find you!

[Bluebox]

I think like most people here after the first few times it gets a bit boring.
It's handy in bars to check out competition.
I use it at work to spook naive colleagues.

This is a laugh if you're interested.
http://www.bluejackq.com/

[John81]

Hello,

I'm keen on wireless and I would like to talk with some people interested by new bluetooth usages such as BlueJacking.
Is there some experts here ;-)
John

[fabarati]

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