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Is Verizon's 'crippled' BT immune to bluesnarfing?
I've never complained about Verizon crippling the bluetooth because I recall the ScreenSavers show on techTV where these individuals demonstrated bluesnarfing. See the link:
http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/welcome_to ... » ...
Does anyone know if Verizon bluetooth is truly immune to this? I tried the Verizon board, but I think a tech needs to answer this.
http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/welcome_to ... » ...
Does anyone know if Verizon bluetooth is truly immune to this? I tried the Verizon board, but I think a tech needs to answer this.
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i've talked to a tech about this, and they confirmed with me that verizons implementaion of bluetooth will prevent this activity. not necessarily people getting into the phone, but making calls or sending texts (bluesnarfing) or downloading your data (bluesnatching), same as how you can't use your bluetooth to get your pocket pc to dial out, or send your phonebook to another hardware.
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Thank you, I appreciate you looking into this. I don't mind the 'cripple' so much when I know why and that it's patching a potentially big security problem. Now, if we can get Microsoft to take a hint from Verizon and do something about Outlook...
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