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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 Daoenti · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Even though it's been said... if you actually read you'll see the following:
    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. Aiming the rifle from an 11th-floor window of the Aladdin hotel at a taxi stand across the street in Las Vegas, Hering and colleagues were able to collect phone books from 300 Bluetooth devices. They bested that distance and broke a record this week by attacking a Nokia 3610i phone 1.1 miles away and grabbing the phone book and text messages."
    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.
  2. DOn't believe it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I believe almost none of this.
    I have a bluetooth phone and it simply won't do all those things. You *can't* just connect to it and make it bug you or relay your calls.

    Where is the evidence that any of this is even remotely true?