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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. Re:Sniper rifle?! by rvw14 · · Score: 5, Informative

    After I RTFA, I found that a sniper rifle was not used

    The BlueSniper "rifle," created by John Hering and colleagues at Flexilis as a proof-of-concept device, resembles a rifle. It has a vision scope and a yagi antenna with a cable that runs to a Bluetooth-enabled laptop or PDA in a backpack.

  2. Re:Sniper rifle?! by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The BlueSniper "rifle," created by John Hering and colleagues at Flexilis as a proof-of-concept device, resembles a rifle.

    How much does it resemble a rifle? People get shot here in NYC when wallets and candy bars get mistaken for weapons...

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  3. Dupe by Jacco+de+Leeuw · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're right, here are the pictures.

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  4. More info by AngryScot · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here

    Was covered in brief on tomshardware in a post on /. yestarday

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  5. It looks nifty, but its not a sniper rifle by millisa · · Score: 4, Informative

    It isn't a real sniper rifle It'd still make someone nervous if it was pointed at them I imagine . . .

  6. Re:Sniper rifle?! by nine-times · · Score: 4, Informative
    Now why someone thought it necessary to call it a 'sniper rifle' when they submitted the article is beyond me since it's at the very least misleading.

    It actually makes a lot of sense, no? The device resembles a rifle- not just out of some "cool" factor, but because use of the device requires aim, and the rifle form is suitable. It also has metaphorical relation to the rifle, in that it's a "weapon of attack", so to speak. Further, insofar as the attack is a long range attack from a concealed location, it makes a certain amount of sense to call it "sniping".

    So, insofar as it lead to you believe people were firing bullets through a sniper rifle as a means to hack cell-phones, yes, it was misleading. However, I think it was only intended to draw the obvious metaphorical comparison between what these guys were doing and what a sniper does.

  7. Re:i'm suspect at the lack of details. by carbolic · · Score: 4, Informative
    I was there - holding the Nokia out in front of me. TechTV was there filming the test from both sides. It will appear on The Screen Savers at some point.

    We used a high gain, 19dBi, panel antenna attached to a Linksys Class 1 Bluetooth adapter - picture.

    Using this equipment, last week we transferred a few pictures from 3300 feet (1 km). This week we bluesnarfed from about 5300 feet (1.08 miles).

    The whole point of these experiments is to show that Bluetooth can go a lot further than previously suspected. Witness the 55.1 mile link using 30 mw wifi.

    Lack of details is because it's in Wired News. Look for a writeup on www.wifi-toys.com later today.

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