Sunday, January 11, 2009

What is BlueJacking?

First of all, you have to understand what Bluetooth is. There are whole lot of types of advanced devices that integrate Bluetooth as among their many features. PDAs, cellphones and laptops are some of these advanced devices. Bluetooth signifies that Bluetooth enabled gimmicks can transmit things like phone book/address book contacts, images & notes to other Bluetooth enabled gimmicks wirelessly over a range of approximately ten meters. So, we have got past the uninteresting part. Now, using a cellphone with Bluetooth, you may create a phone book contact and compose a message, for instance. 'Hello, you have been bluejacked', in the 'Name' field. Then you are able to seek for other cellphones with Bluetooth and transmit that phonebook contact to them. On their cellphone, a message will crop up telling "'Hello, you have been bluejacked' has just been picked up by Bluetooth" or something along those lines. For many 'victims' they'll have no idea as to how the message came out on their cellphone.

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