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Ready, Aim, HACK!
KD5YPT writes "According to a story on Wired, Adam Laurie and Martin Herfurt demonstrated that they can hack a Bluetooth enabled phone from up to a mile away using a sniper rifle with yagi antenna. Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'."
Now all the people that hack Counter-Strike will be out on the streets with Snipers hacking Bluetooth devices, leaving CS hack-free. Thank god.
I'm not impressed. If you really want to impress me, use a Cap'n Crunch whistle over a Bluetooth-enabled phone to switch your neighbor's TV to the Spice channel with the volume up to 50.
Fun.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'.
What, so instead of "Fucking tool" it now will mean "Fucking tool who's in jail for aiming a sniper rifle at someone"?
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If I saw a guy pointing a gun at me from far away (or close), I wouldn't be worried about him taking my contacts out of my phone.
Now in real life too. Too bad you can't toss the occasional opportunistic grenade like in Half Life.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
RTFA, this sniper rifle is NOT a weapon.
No more paying for those pricey 900 numbers... I'll just hack some poor schmuck's phone and whack o..err... talk for free.
Hey, guys. Big gulps, huh? Cool. All right! Well, see ya later.
...that you have to call the guy at the other end and ask him to stand very very still :)
So pretty soon, kids will look at pictures of the soldiers in Iraq and think they're just trying to access each other's networks...
What kind of time do these people have to try these kinds of ridiculous "tests?"
What else are they going to do with their time once they get kicked out of their parents basements?
Learn something new every day.
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BTW the Hitchhikers Guide is now considered a bad idea, as even it has proven to be hackable, particularly by those who consider themselves to be hoopy froods (though inaccurate entries may be inserted, and attempts to modify the operating system of all versions of the Guide result in the brief appearance of a hungry ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal, followed shortly by the departure of a not quite as hungry ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal.)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
My wireless network is fucking bulletproof. I have a monk standing guard.
...somebody tk'd them for hogging the AWP and being all sux0r with it.
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"The BlueSniper rifle for capturing data from Bluetooth-enabled phones is constructed from a Choate Ruger Mini-14 stock, 14dbi semi-directional Yagi antenna, standard rifle scope, electrical tape, zip ties and cardboard."
They really should have used duct tape rather then electrical tape. It would have been much more Chic!
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Is there a psychological term related to getting your stories rejected on slashdot?
I wondered why my phone's display kept changing to "OMG PWN3D U FAG". I thought it was Verizon getting uppity.
Some researchers found a way to completely destroy bluetooth-enabled cellphones from up to a mile away with a sniper rifle by failing to RTFA.
Wonder what their defense would be if they got caught pointing the rifle at someone.
Hopefully kevlar.
I thank you.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I would be more worried about him taking the contacts out of my eyes!
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As I was reading the only thing I could think about was James Bond standing on top of a building and spying on someone's conversation using the Bluetooth rifle...now that is an awesome hack.
SIGFAULT
I could care less if you hack my BlueTooth phone.
:-[
If some asshat need in you arises that demands that you must listen in on a conversation with my wife as she bitches at me for buying ROMA TOMATOES instead of CHERRY TOMATOES (they're fucking red, for Christ's sake), you go right ahead.
And if it gets your lollies off to hear that, wait until she calls me to inform me that I, once again, forgot to let the dog shit before going to work. And I must clean up what ensued.
Yeah -- hack that. All you want.
IronChefMorimoto
In a related story, Las Vegas police department sharpshooters shot two men who they say were preparing to assassinate random pedestrians from an 11th floor window of the Aladdin Hotel. When the concept of the "Bluetooth rifle" was explained to the police spokesman, he said, and we quote, "what a pair of f***ing idiots." Since the pair was shot approximately 10,000 times by the nice policemen with *real* rifles, only splinters of the "Bluetooth rifle" remain. Film at 11.
for reminding people that they don't gain karma for a funny mod.
Funny how that works.
No way, man. Most of /. doesn't even know what sex *is*...
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