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Ready, Aim, HACK!

Posted by michael on from the reach-out-and-touch-someone dept.

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'."

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  1. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. So? by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. by strictnein · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. by justkarl · · Score: 5, Funny

      What, so instead of "Fucking tool" it now will mean "Fucking tool who's in jail for aiming a sniper rifle at someone"?

      True.
      Do you think that cops would arrest you first for
      a: hacking or
      b: carrying around a F'n sniper rifle?

      "No, officer, I swear I wasn't shooting anybody, I was just trying to hack their phone!"

    2. Re:Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'. by d474 · · Score: 5, Funny
      They should turn this rifle into a head mounted unit with a Large parabolic dish attached to the top.

      That would result in:
      1. 1) You would get laughed at by police instead of shot

      2. 2) Nerd factor points increase in orders of magnitude
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  4. guns.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Camping bastards... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now in real life too. Too bad you can't toss the occasional opportunistic grenade like in Half Life.

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  6. Sweet by TheSexican · · Score: 5, Funny

    No more paying for those pricey 900 numbers... I'll just hack some poor schmuck's phone and whack o..err... talk for free.

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  7. Yeah, Except... by JamieKitson · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that you have to call the guy at the other end and ask him to stand very very still :)

  8. Luddites Rejoice by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny
    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.

    Surviving the 21st century:

    Pencil

    Pocket knife

    Pad of paper

    Water bottle
    &

    Towel

    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.)

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  9. That explains a lot. by Mr.+Bad+Example · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wondered why my phone's display kept changing to "OMG PWN3D U FAG". I thought it was Verizon getting uppity.

  10. In other news ... by cccpkgb · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  11. Re:Sniper rifle?! by tehcyder · · Score: 3, Funny
    What about a "snooper rifle"?

    I thank you.

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  12. James Bond by dfj225 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  13. If you really must hear... by IronChefMorimoto · · Score: 4, Funny

    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