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

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

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