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Spammed by Bluetooth
An Anonymous Reader writes "BBC News is reporting a new craze - using Bluetooth to send unsolicited messages. Apparently lots of phone owners are leaving Bluetooth switched on, meaning that anyone within range can send a short message. The phenomenon is known as "bluejacking". It's not clear at present that this is being done by anyone other than pranksters, but one can't help wondering, how long before commercial spammers catch on."
I've used this feature also to send quick notes to cow-orkers at the office
Easily identified by their Gateway workstations.
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Well, if they're in range, it shouldn't be hard to find someone engaging in commercial "bluejacking", so we can beat the crap out of them in front of everyone.
Or is it the removal of testicles that we're out for? I can never remember what the punishment for spamming is...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
...is that it is fairly short range, so when you identify the spammer you can go punch them.
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Do you really think spammers are going to install bluetooth devices every ten yards to acheive that...?
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
>As I recall, this was one of the intended applications of Bluetooth.
It's amusing just how many people think they've just discovered some renegade underground use of Bluetooth, rather than what it was invented for! What's next?
Post-jacking? "You can send post to people and it just turns up in their letterbox". Phone-jacking? "Give someone a ring, they'll have to answer to find out who it is!"
> Mom and Pop stores could have messages sent to your device as you walk past
As well as the prostitutes standing in front of their stores.
Meet brutus, he's the bluetooth honeypot. When someone sends a message he doesn't like he pummels everyone within 15 feet.
Worse than vCards, you can send pics this way. It may be funny to take a pic of someone with your phone and then 'bluejack' it too them - but I know people who've received some pretty nasty porn over bluejacking too.
Nooooooooooo. I thought my phone was a goatse.cx free zone.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
I would prefer damaging it so that they have to send someone to repair it, we all then wait for him or her and corner them, after they loose five or six people they'll think twice of sending out a repair crew.
Yeah! Anarchy!
If you want to e-mail me, use my PGP Key.
Well, there'll be the inevitable "bored geek" game of sending "You really should turn 'discoverable' off" messages to unguarded phones takes off.
Tiggs
Tiggs
"120 chars should be enough for everyone..."
When I'm bored I'll change my iPaq 5450 BlueTooth device identification to ABigHairyDick and then look for phones.
Great fun when someone's phone beeps, and on the screen they see "Accept connection from ABigHairyDick?"
Puzzeled frowns usually result although after this article I'm sure to get my smirking ass beat good.
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