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Ronald_Craft
02-11-2004, 03:45 PM
Bluesnarfing is quicly making its rounds. See the source article here. (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/38619)

If you use any of the cell phones in that article and walk around with bluetooth enabled people can not only steal everything in your address book, but it's even possible to cause a DoS attack on your phone if you have a Nokia 6310i by sending a multitude of corrupted bluetooth messages.

I'm kind of weary of bluetooth now.

Acroplex
02-11-2004, 04:22 PM
Seems like a cracked tooth to me :D

RackNine
02-11-2004, 05:43 PM
Only certain phones are affected. Bluetooth and 802.11 are big advantages to business offices, I'm setup for wireless access throughout the office and home for all my devices, very nice monitoring trouble ticket response times from the iPAQ while watching a movie at home on the couch :)

-Matt