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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. It would be interesting... by AcquaCow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    to use this same setup to look down into a city and pick up individual wireless networks.

    War Sniping?

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  2. that's why by eoyount · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's why you should turn bluetooth off when you're not using it.

    Is there really any need to have bluetooth turned on all the time? I would think that it just wastes batteries.

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  3. Interesting Military Application by Vexler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If deployed in the field, special ops soldiers can approach a terrorist safehouse, and activate this device to hack into any cell phone that may be vulnerable. Then they could simply listen in on the safehouse without ever being even 500 feet away, and can discern their movement if necessary.

    All this translates into being able not to tip off the bad guys that you are coming, and still able to glean important intel.