Bluesnarfing At CeBIT 2004

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @06:10AM from the not-dirty-toothing dept.

La^2 writes "The Austrian research company Salzburg Research did a field trial at the CeBIT 2004 that confirms the seriousness of the recently discovered bluetooth security loophole in the firmware of popular mobile phones. In this trial, 1269 unique bluetooth-enabled devices were discovered, and their vulnerability to the so-called SNARF attack checked. The report on this bluesnarfing at large scale has interesting statistics, which may not please some of the vendors." (And the CeBIT version of Knoppix was apparently being used to slurp up and display Bluetooth phone information, too.)

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I found a solution to Snarf by mrbob01 · 2004-03-31 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Raise your mobile phone to your eyes and scream "Thunder, thunder, thunder cats hooooooooooooooo".
this is as opposed to "bluesmurfing" by zephc · 2004-03-31 06:17 · Score: 5, Funny

which involves two or more Smurfs, a pound of coke, and a strong rope tied into a noose

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definition of snarf by sysopd · 2004-03-31 06:39 · Score: 5, Funny

I hope I'm not the only one here who has gone through life with the definition of a snarf (as explained to me by my father) as:
"one who goes around sniffing girls bicycle seats after they've ridden them on a hot day"
Similarly, he had variations such as snarfcicle (on a cold day), snarfbucket (saves the sweat from the seats in buckets), etc... not to mention my personal favorite word he defined, a queebie:
"one who farts in the bathtub and bites the bubbles"
I was young when he told me these definitions so it was awkward when I used them in colloquial intercourse and had to define them every time.
1. Re:definition of snarf by hambonewilkins · 2004-03-31 06:44 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Wow, really funny you mention this. I always had trouble between snarf and snurf. Snurf was my dads term for what to call a queebie, but actually the action of biting the bubbles, ie to snurf. Snarf, as I know it, is also a verb (He snarfed yesterday and will likely today, that pervert).
  If you hadn't put that in, I would have thought you were my brother posting!
  
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2. Re:definition of snarf by drinkypoo · 2004-03-31 06:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  A "snarf" is when you blow something out your nose that wasn't intended to go that way. Beverages are the most common thing to snarf, but I once snarfed yogurt. This is highly inadvisable and I did not do it on purpose.
  
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3. Re:definition of snarf by sammaffei · 2004-03-31 06:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If this isn't a glowing endorsement for a revamped orphange system, I don't know that is.
  
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4. Re:definition of snarf by jcuervo · 2004-03-31 07:15 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Er, I don't actually belong in this thread. It just seemed to be where the party was...
  
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5. Re:definition of snarf by That's+Unpossible! · 2004-03-31 07:39 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Can you guys get a room or something.
  
  Bring your dads along while you're at it.
  
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6. Re:definition of snarf by thisissilly · 2004-03-31 08:20 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Another useage of snarf was introduced to me by a former coworker, who referred to "cut & paste" as "snarf & barf".
well, you see... by abscondment · 2004-03-31 06:45 · Score: 3, Funny

if people would brush their blueteeth more, they'd get less cavities.

obviously bluetooth devices aren't packaged with enough care instructions.
What shall we do tomorrow, Brain? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-31 07:15 · Score: 2, Funny

What are we going to to tomorrow, Brain?

The same thing we do every night, Pinky, Try to take over the WORLD! [maniacal laughter]

Snarf!
Re:snarfing -- who cares by spacefight · 2004-03-31 07:58 · Score: 2, Funny

i have a feeling your post has more to do with drawing people to your website to sell wireless t-shirts ;-)